Thread: AZ: Truck driver forced to show birth certificate claims racial-profiling

by Alicia E. Barr

So, if I walk to the community swimming pool to swim and a cop asks me for my license / birth certificate / SSN / star sign, and I don't have my wallet on me, does the cop have the right to detain me? (I am brown)

You still cannot come up with a good enough reason as to why he needs to carry a birth certificate.

No, you're confusing "nothing" with reasonable suspicion.


No, like I said, reasonable suspicion is that a cop needs suspicion based on a REASONABLE INFERENCE that you have committed, are in the process of committing, or are about to commit a crime. There's a big difference. "I don't know you, and some stuff sometimes happens here" is not reasonable suspicion.


Oh, so you didn't actually say "any little tickle in his shorts"? My bad, who actually said it?

What's the new "paperwork question"?

you mean like when I went to the DMV to get my drivers' license?

Or if I lose my social security card?

NOOOOOOOO ITS A POLICDE STATE I DONT WANNA!!111 WAHHHHHH

The story was posted before the bill was even signed.

Umm, a cop seeing someone driving around in an area where drugs are sold is reasonable suspicion, haven't you ever watched Cops?

Any little tickle in his shorts is not in reference to "hmm, i feel like just stopping this guy", it's in reference to "hmm, that guy seems to be acting strange to me, let's check out why he is acting so weird". The first is not legal, the 2nd is. You're confusing probable cause with reasonable suspicion. Like I said, go back to daydreaming about shooting a guy in the back.

because the laws and rules for crossing the border as they existed in april say he does?