I never mentioned the cop having her hand on her gun. That is her right, but both these auditors were minding their own businesses and the police approached them when they were doing nothing illegal. Citizens have rights and the cops don’t like it because it puts them in check and if they cross those lines, than they are in violation. We do not live in Nazi Germany where the police can demand papers and information at will. When the citizen doesn’t know their rights, they get abused by these bad cops. When the citizens break the law, we pay the price when get caught, but you want to give a free hand for the cops to do what they want just because they think they can? Sorry but, that goes too far in supporting law enforcement when they break the law themselves, even when they were not enforcing any laws with these two guys, but it was their bruised egos kept them there until the cops realized they were over their heads with these guys because they knew their rights and the cops had to walk away.
In the first one the guys were filming the police and the cop got pissed off. If a cop gets pissed off when someone is legally doing something and starts to find out who you are so that they can hang you up on something, which is what the cop did, was to run the number plate on the car where the guys were standing thinking it belonged to them. She violated her policy right there. Secondly, she was more interested to arrest these guys for anything she could find than protecting her partner who was issuing a ticket to someone else.
With the second guy, the cop had no choice but to approach him, because she was called out by someone seeing someone filming the plant. He was very cordial with her and respectful until she wanted to ID him illegally. He said no and wanted to break contact because he was not detained. At that point the cop should have said, “thank you and have a good day” and got back in her cruiser and drove off since the guy was not committing any crimes and that would and should have been the end of it. But no, she wanted to escalate which is what cunt cops do. She asked for his name again and told him to get his hand out of his pocket which she had no right to do so as he was not detained. Still respectful, he gave her an earful. He stood on his rights. You call that provocation or agitator. No, he was neither. Most people wrongly believe that the cops do everything by the book, but that is hardly ever the truth, so if you let the cop control you, they will soon find something to arrest you, even when doing something totally legal, because they don’t like something. This is how most cops have become cunts, because they believe that the laws do not apply to them and they believe that even more when they are not challenged by the citizens. If people do not use their rights, they will lose them. What these guys do is take on the police with their rights and nothing else. They do not harm the cops, only their egos if they are cunts.
You say, “well, if you haven’t done anything wrong, why not give the cops your name and a thing else they ask for”. Here is the problem with that thinking. So the last guy was filming a power plant from a public place which he had the right to be there. Sometimes they film military installations or FBI buildings or police stations from the public place totally legal. By giving his name, the police will generate a report and send it to the Fusion Center where he may be put on terrorist watch list and on a No Fly list, just by doing something which is legal. Now do you see the problems he would create for himself with the police just by being a “nice guy” by providing such information to the police when he doesn’t need to. It is not so easy, even possible to get ones name off the No Fly List. Last count we have about 20,000 people on the No Fly List. Do you really think they are all terrorist? No way.
Legal traffic stop is another matter entirely as it’s a privilege to drive and not a right, therefore one must produce driving license, registration and proof of insurance when LEGALLY stopped. Aside from those items, you don’t have to say anything else.
Gun laws are different in each of the 50 states and territories so one cannot make a blanket statement. Illegal ownership of a handgun has serious consequences.