Police Arrest Alabama Pastor for ( No Joke) Watering Flowers

Do you believe the COP THOUGHT he had reasonable suspicion to believe a crime was about to be committed?

 

Nobody it's right mind can possible come up with that idea when seeing a person watering flowers.
And you still made no attempt to explain this to me.

 

So, you believe there was no way the cop thought he had reasonable suspicion (i.e., he was lying about his suspicion). Yet on this forum alone it is about a 70/30 split. Regardless, the court gives deference to the police as they swear an oath.

1. A neighbor reports a suspicious person at a house she knows to be vacated by the owners,
2. She also reports a suspicious car in the driveway which doesn't belong to the neighbors,
3. They find a man watering flowers next to the vehicle,
4. The man admits he doesn't live there,
5. The cop asks, "Is this your vehicle?" The man replies, "No."
6. The cop asks, "Do you know who owns this vehicle?" The man replies, "I don't know, I guess the neighbors",

At this point the cop isn't even sure the Pastor is the suspicious person reported. It may be the owner of the car is a burglar still inside the house. That's actually what I thought was going to end up happening.

7. The cop asks the man to identify himself. The man at first refuses and gets belligerent. After additional requests the man finally replies, "Pastor Jennings". When asked for his address Pastor Jennings points and says, "Over there across the street", then begins to walk away, to the front of the house.

At this point the cop claims he thought he had reasonable suspicion a crime had been committed, was in the process of being committed, or might be committed in the near future. Yet you claim it is impossible to believe the cop actually thought this to be the case and was therefore lying?

 

You are succeeding showing how the person is suspicious.
You failed to prove how he "is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony or other public offense".

Hence the pastor was in it's right to refuse to identify himself and the cop had to back off at that point.


But the cop's pride of him being white being told "no" by a black man, caused the cop to breach the law he swore to uphold. Let's just say it how it is. Both people obviously knew the law. The cop flat out breached it. No excuses.