any lawyers or LE, please feel free to answer my questions. Thanks.
scenario:
No one has called in a complaint about me.
I have never broken the law in 32 years.
I pay my taxes and work 9 to 5 as a pizzeria manager.
I am sitting on my front lawn.
I am reading the paper.
A cop pulls up, gets out, approaches me and asks to see my ID.
What are my options?
Is he illegally tresspassing?
Is so, can I ask him to kindly leave?
Can I refuse to show ID?
Does the officer have the legal right to ask me questions?
From a legal standpoint, does the officer have to tell me (specifically) why he is questioning me?
If he does NOT have that legal right what can I do to exercise my rights to make him leave.
If he refuses my request do I have a legal right to take him into custody under citizens arrest and is there limitations on what type of force I can use to subdo him?
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another scenario:
I am driving my car.
I have no outstanding warrents and a valid license and have not broken any traffic violations.
cop pulls me over
he asks for license reg and ins proof
I ask him what he is stopping me for.
Legally,does he have to tell me?
If he doesnt tell me why I was stopped, do I have to continue to answer his requests?
Do I have the legal right to ask him questions and do I have the right to get answers.
Do I have the legal right to videotape and/or tape record him?
If he becomes abusive, physically or verbally what legal rights to I have to end the confrontation?
Kola
scenario:
No one has called in a complaint about me.
I have never broken the law in 32 years.
I pay my taxes and work 9 to 5 as a pizzeria manager.
I am sitting on my front lawn.
I am reading the paper.
A cop pulls up, gets out, approaches me and asks to see my ID.
What are my options?
Is he illegally tresspassing?
Is so, can I ask him to kindly leave?
Can I refuse to show ID?
Does the officer have the legal right to ask me questions?
From a legal standpoint, does the officer have to tell me (specifically) why he is questioning me?
If he does NOT have that legal right what can I do to exercise my rights to make him leave.
If he refuses my request do I have a legal right to take him into custody under citizens arrest and is there limitations on what type of force I can use to subdo him?
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another scenario:
I am driving my car.
I have no outstanding warrents and a valid license and have not broken any traffic violations.
cop pulls me over
he asks for license reg and ins proof
I ask him what he is stopping me for.
Legally,does he have to tell me?
If he doesnt tell me why I was stopped, do I have to continue to answer his requests?
Do I have the legal right to ask him questions and do I have the right to get answers.
Do I have the legal right to videotape and/or tape record him?
If he becomes abusive, physically or verbally what legal rights to I have to end the confrontation?
Kola