“Because there is nothing that can be done to stop the rampaging”
I don’t accept that premise.
If the cops can’t handle it, they should all be fired for failing at their jobs. Or the national guard brought in, as in Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots.
The cops don’t get to abdicate their responsibility AND enact unconstitutional rules without due process.
Every war we have fought is to preserve such fundamental rights: to be safe from the guys with guns and color of authority.
I’ll go anywhere I damn well please. And no, I don’t have to show you “proof of residency” or I.D. of any kind, unless you have good reason to think I’ve committed a crime.
I double-dog dare you to go to Miami Beach for the Urban Festival this weekend. Or any other of a number of annual urban festivals that go on all the time. While there, tell a cop asking you who you are to shove it. Say, “I’ll go anywhere I damn well please. And no, I don’t have to show you “proof of residency” or I.D. of any kind, unless you have good reason to think I’ve committed a crime.”
Please report back here your results, after you get out on bail. And see how much sympathy you get.