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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Well according to the article, the police reports states the man refused to hand over ID initially. If that's true, the cop wouldn't have known who was in the house, and therefore it could have been the bad guy that was apparently breaking into the house, no?
So what happens if the house really was getting broken into, but the cop left without investigating and something worse happened? Of course that is hypothetical because we know in this case that is impossible. But if you take the police at their word, they didn't know who this guy was, and he refused to show ID at first. It was only later that he began to cause a disturbance, and was subsequently arrested for it.
You say peacefully residing in his own house. Well, again, if we go by the police report, he wasn't exactly simply residing peacefully.
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Both sides agree that Gates showed his ID. Gates claims he walked through his house to get his wallet. The police claim that he didn't show ID right away. However--here's the important part. Regardless of how stupid he felt it was to have to prove that he lived in the house in Cambridge that he owns--he nevertheless complied. Both sides agree that this happened. What happened before that is irrelevant.
After that, his worst crime per the police report is giving the cop an earful. I would have given him an earful too. Since when is it a crime to tell an idiot that he's an idiot? If you can be arrested because a police officer doesn't like the name you called his mama.... we're living in a very different country than I imagined.