A CVS employee has called a Lyft drive to take him home after work, and he is sitting on a bench outside the store waiting for the ride, 7 minutes after the store has closed, when a cop approaches him and very aggressively demands to see his ID.
The cop does not even mention any crime that he is suspecting the guy of, he just demands to see his ID. The guy tells to him that he works at the store and he is just waiting for his ride, and he knows that he doesn't need to show ID because he hasn't committed of any crime, and the cop hasn't even mentioned any crime whatsoever.
His ride arrives, so the guy calmly stands up and starts to walk towards it, but the cop escalates and takes out his taser and threatens him with it. Why? The cop still can't articulate any crime. He just wants the guy's ID, even though he has no legal right to demand it. The cop quickly starts escalating more and more, and soon is screaming at the guy like an insane asylum lunatic.
The cop proceeds to arrest him. The cop tells the Lyft driver to go away because the guy "doesn't need a drive anymore" (which confirms that the cop has no reason to not to believe that the guy was just waiting for his ride). He also a bit later comments to another cop that he does believe that the guy works at that store, but that he doesn't care, and that the guy is "fucked".
And why is the guy "fucked"? Why is the cop so angry at him?
Because he refused to show ID. That's it. That was his only "crime". Which isn't a crime in that state at all. The cop had no legal right to demand his ID, but American cops have an ID fetish and they couldn't give a flying fuck about the law.
Unsurprisingly, and as is a matter of course, the cop then proceeded to lie in his report about the incident, making stuff up and exaggerating what happened, in order to justify the arrest, and to try to get revenge on the guy for his disrespect of the cop's authority.
And as is so common in the United States, CVS has a "zero-tolerance policy" and fired the man as a matter of course, for being arrested, completely regardless of whether the arrest was lawful or not, or whether the arrest ends in actual conviction or not.
(This is a rather incomprehensible policy with many, many American companies: They will automatically fire employees who get arrested without even waiting for the verdict, and completely regardless of whether the employee is innocent or not. The arrest is sufficient for them: Get arrested equals get fired, regardless of anything. Even if you are 100% innocent and the arrest was 100% illegal, it doesn't matter one iota. And American workers have no protection against this. It's a completely fucked up system.)
And now the guy has to fight the charges while being unemployed. He can't hire a lawyer because he has no money, and his life is ruined.
And all because of the ID fetish of a tyrant piece of garbage, who will likely not experience any consequences for his actions.
You can see a video about it for example here.
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