Here is the CADS (Cop Attitude Disorder Syndrome) on full display. It extends to the very top in this department. Despite knowing there was no legal requirement to comply, despite knowing his officers had seized an American off the streets of his town, despite knowing his officers behaved in true KGB fashion (papers please, comrade), rather than apologize or decry the officers' gross violations as both unpatriotic and unAmerican:
Riverside police Chief Mark Reiss argued, “Had he been truthful with the police and simply provided his identification so that they could have quickly ran it, that encounter would have been over very quickly, within a minute or two.”
Technically that is true, but the only problem is that Call was under no legal obligation to pacify the police officers. Call’s refusal to identify himself was a Constitutional right.
Notice that even the idiot who wrote the article lumps your rights under the heading of "technicalities."