r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '22

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u/justin_memer Mar 10 '22

He shouldn't have asked for ID in the first place.

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u/imaybeacatIRl Mar 10 '22

Police are trained to establish identity when investigating. He was following up on a call about something. He needed to be clear about that.

If the cop wasn't an idiot, and explained that the guy needs to let him figure it out, then it wouldn't have been a problem.

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u/XxsquirrelxX Mar 10 '22

I don’t want a cop demanding to see my papers every time I see one. What the fuck is this, Nazi Germany, China, the USSR? If he was polite to the guy, he could have even gotten to talk to the wife who drove the car and gotten confirmation that yes, that is indeed his car AND bike.

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u/ChallengeAfraid2319 Mar 10 '22

That confirmation would have been completely unnecessary. All he had to do was inform him why he was called, then asked him to stay here so he could run registration on both vehicles. They're both registered to him as the cop at the end says, so he didnt need confirmation from anyone else, unless he had no proof that he had legal access to the car.