Innocent People Aren’t Required To Identify Themselves, And Police Have No Authority To Arrest Them

-Qualified immunity protects public officials “from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have,” the court said, adding that the trooper “acted contrary to the plain meaning” of the state statute.


...hmm, makes sense to me, I wonder what Pulaski County Sheriff's Office thinks about that?

p.s. Jim Crow Sucks


Ean Bordeaux, pro per
Creole Intrests Reporter
Citizen Complainant

-E pluribus Unum



8th Circuit Federal Court Of Appeals Rules That Innocent People Aren’t Required To Identify Themselves, And Police Have No Authority To Arrest Them If They Don’t

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LITTLE ROCK, AR - A police officer does not have the authority to arrest someone for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of committing a crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed an Arkansas federal judge’s ruling and ordered a new hearing in a Benton County man’s lawsuit challenging his arrest for refusing to show his identification during a traffic stop.

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