Standing up for your rights is not being disrespectful. That is exactly the mindset that has destroyed American policing.
If your impression of the situation is “yeah, but he could have just complied and been left alone”, then you are literally a part of the problem.
The minutemen in Lexington and Concord could also have just complied with the British police coming to confiscate their rifles and been left alone.
Armed agents of the government with the ability to remove your freedom walking up to you and demanding your papers is not liberty, is not freedom, and IS NOT AMERICAN.
Standing up for your rights is not being disrespectful. That is exactly the mindset that has destroyed American policing.
If your impression of the situation is “yeah, but he could have just complied and been left alone”, then you are literally a part of the problem.
The minutemen in Lexington and Concord could also have just complied with the British police coming to confiscate their rifles and been left alone.
Armed agents of the government with the ability to remove your freedom walking up to you and demanding your papers is not liberty, is not freedom, and IS NOT AMERICAN.