Comments by "😊 Erin Thor" (@Erin-Thor) on "Bodycam Shows Arrest Of A Black Pastor While Watering A Neighbor's Flowers" video.

Humor me, you’re out of town, a neighbor sees a strange man at your house and calls 911. When the police show up the man immediately says I don’t live here, I live across the street. [Wait…] You return and find out you’ve been robbed, that the police showed up, caught the guy, but have no clue who he was. They asked for his ID and he refused, and they let him go. How would you feel then? If the police have a reasonable suspicion of a crime (911 call), they have the right to ask for ID, or detain the man to determine if his story is correct, determine if a crime is being committed. ALL THEY DID WAS VERIFY WHO HE WAS.
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Humor me, you’re out of town, a neighbor sees a strange man at your house and calls 911. When the police show up the man immediately says I don’t live here, I live across the street. [Wait…] You return and find out you’ve been robbed, that the police showed up, caught the guy, but have no clue who he was. They asked for his ID and he refused, and they let him go. How would you feel then? If the police have a reasonable suspicion of a crime (911 call), they have the right to ask for ID, or detain the man to determine if his story is correct, determine if a crime is being committed. ALL THEY DID WAS VERIFY WHO HE WAS.
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@veronicasimpson2453 — Trap him? They asked him to prove who he was. I understood what he said, but police have to trust but verify. He didn’t respond “I don’t have my ID on me, he responded “NO! I don’t have to show you my ID.” How were they to know he was what he said? Why in this case are you blaming the police for doing their job? Why don’t you instead ask why a PASTOR refused to answer questions. Watch this again, put yourself into the situation. Would YOU have responded like that? I wouldn’t! I’m at another persons property (doing a good deed), and a policeman shows up and asks me who I am and why I’m here. I WOULD ANSWER HIM LIKE I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. He, the PASTOR made it HEATED, not the cops. All he had to do was say “No, this is not my house I live across the street at 1234 Elm St., my name is Erin Thor.” ID? “I don’t have it on me I’ll be glad to go get it, or you can look me up based on my home address that I just gave you.“
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@veronicasimpson2453 — No, I am not. I am making a point that the police have a function, rules they must follow, and you and others are making this about race when it’s not. Watch again please, ask yourself if the pastor was white, the cops black, would you feel the same. The police had probable cause to detain him as they had reasonable suspicion of a possible crime. Period. YOU are inserting facts into this video that never happened.
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@citizentactics5227 — Seriously? Responding to a call about a possible crime changes nothing. Cops walk up and see a guy watering who immediately says it’s not his house. Where do you idiots come from? This isn’t racist, it’s police doing their job. All he had to do was answer them. Go sell crazy elsewhere.
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@atomicboy8972 Trust buy verify? Hello? The police don't know either one of them. Imagine that was YOUR house, what crime is there in asking someone's name? This "Pastor" created an adversarial situation, not the police. All he had to do was respond, but NO! He said he doesn't have to show his ID instead. Would you want your house robbed, then find out the police saw the guy, but did nothing? Imagine yourself a cop, you get a call of a trespasser, some guy and some woman say I'm a pastor, live over there, and a woman says he's a neighbor, but you have no proof. Let him go... and he robs the place and the woman who said she knows him turns out to be his accomplice. Did your parents not ever tell you YOU DON'T ARGUE WITH THE POLICE! YOU ARGUE IN COURT LATER.
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He wasn’t arrested, he was questioned and refused to answer questions. Humor me, you’re out of town, a neighbor sees a strange man at your house and calls 911. When the police show up the man immediately says I don’t live here, I live across the street. [Wait…] You return and find out you’ve been robbed, that the police showed up, caught the guy, but have no clue who he was. They asked for his ID and he refused, and they let him go. How would you feel then? If the police have a reasonable suspicion of a crime (911 call), they have the right to ask for ID, or detain the man to determine if his story is correct, determine if a crime is being committed. ALL THEY DID WAS VERIFY WHO HE WAS.
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@rupertpicante2079 — “He told them…” Thank you for proving my point. Tell me please what you think the reason we carry ID? Please post your address, when your out of town we can rob you, and if the police show up we will “tell them” we are with the church watering your lawn. When they leave, we will finish robbing your home and leave. Thanks!
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@conservativedragon -- So robbery is legal in your opinion and a protected right? (not that he was a robber, just that the neighbor and the police did not KNOW.)
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@conservativedragon -- That is your right. But... assume that home is yours, you get home to find out you have been robbed. Your neighbor called the police, who caught the guy... but he said he was watering and his accomplice pretended to be walking up as a neighbor and told them he was just watering the lawn. The police said "cool" and left, and you returned to find everything stolen. Would you care then?
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@conservativedragon — If you returned home to find you had been burglarized, would and your neighbor said they saw someone pretending to water your flowers… but said they didn’t want to get involved, would you have wanted them to have called the police?
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@conservativedragon — Really, my house was just burglarized and no one cared when they saw people carrying things out.
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