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Old May 28, 2010, 11:30 am
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Originally Posted by Ari
I made that point a while back, but that doesn't change the fact that he should have verbally identified himself.

He sounds like an arrogant kid on the tape and that is unlikely to play well with a jury. The other charges are bogus, but this one might not be.
He didn't need to identify himself. Note that the Albuquerque ordinance was enacted pre-Brown and the city council likely either didn't know of or ignored the Supreme Court's ruling. There is no reasonable suspicion standard stated in the ordinance and allows the officer to simply use the catch all of "discharging duties." That doesn't pass muster.
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