Mainsail
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ShooterMcGavin wrote:
The ‘reasonable officer’ standard could not be stretched to allow an officer to fabricate a complaint, use that fabricated complaint as reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime, and then detain you. Imagine a cop trying to explain that to a judge! Such an act would very likely not allow the application of qualified immunity, leaving the officer without that protection. If you believe that happened, it would be relatively easy to verify the call he’s supposedly investigating.
ShooterMcGavin wrote:
Of course there's a way to know. Call LESA and ask them if there was a crime reported in that area. If there was, ask for a description of the perpetrator; it either matches you or it doesn't. If it doesn't, call the officer's sergeant and make a complaint or file a lawsuit. If this were to happen to me, I would ask the officer for the call number that he is investigating (at the end of the detention that is).He says "yes, we suspect that you were involved in a crime" or he tells you that you "match a description" but will give you no other information.
He is lying, but there is no way to know.
The ‘reasonable officer’ standard could not be stretched to allow an officer to fabricate a complaint, use that fabricated complaint as reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime, and then detain you. Imagine a cop trying to explain that to a judge! Such an act would very likely not allow the application of qualified immunity, leaving the officer without that protection. If you believe that happened, it would be relatively easy to verify the call he’s supposedly investigating.