Cops ID Man on His Own Property

You got your ID with you, sir?

I haven't committed any crimes.

Sir, we're out here for a call for service.

We have to identify you.

Now I wish I had a camera.

This is a great illustration about why you should not talk with the police. Why you shouldn't allow them on your property. Not that these cops care about your rights not to talk with them or to exclude them from your property. They can lie to you. They can gaslight you. like you, and they do it because they want to put you in a cage and ruin your life. Here, this guy was just minding his own business, mowing his field, and now he's surrounded by agents of his government interrogating him while holding his own firearm against

his will on his own property. He expresses that he wants to protect his Fourth Amendment rights.

No, actually, I don't have an ID on me, but I'm not going to ID. I'm not giving you my name and date of birth because there's been no crime.

But the female deputy responds that the Fourth Amendment at this point gets put aside.

I'll protect my Fourth Amendment.

The Fourth Amendment at this point gets put aside when, okay.

That's why I argue that it's a good idea for police officers to just use their own common sense a little bit before they escalate a situation where no underlying crime has been committed to an arrest for failure to ID. I mean, at this point, how does obtaining Zebulon's ID prove or disprove whether or not he fired a shot into the air? The neighbor said he didn't witness it. He assumed it. Zebulon gave his side of the story and he said that he didn't do it.

He shot into the ground. It's not like his identity is some mystery that needs to be solved. They know who he is. He's the guy who owns the property they're standing on. They know who he is. He's the guy who owns the property they're standing on. They just want that physical ID because it's like crack for police officers.