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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
If the officer is conducting an investigation and he believes an offence was committed (you committed that offence) regardless if it is criminal/provincial/municipal you must provide the officer with your name if he asks you for it. If you don't...you may charged with obstruction.
I am not saying that the police can just walk up to you and demand you papers. It is not the gestapo. But what you dont realize is that many times a complaint has come into the police about suspicious activity. The police might see you walking down the street at night and want to talk to you so they can eliminate you as a suspect. If you say "bugger off, non of your business" you are only drawing suspicion on yourself.
A reasonable person would say yes officer my name is so and so, is there a problem?
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a reasonable person might be a little bit confused have a brief "deer in the headlights" moment and ask 'why?' and 'what's going on?' which i think would be pretty reasonable questions given the situation.
now - technically that would be disobeying a police order (or at least not complying immediately). does that merit a tasering? who knows what you're gonna do next, the cops have to expect the unexpected at all times... apparently... and apparently that means tasering someone asking questions. if needing and asking for a little clarification in this situation doesn't merit a tasering, why would it in that traffic stop video?