[*BCM*] CM arrest today

[rawillis3 at juno.com]

Timothy OLoughlin <cheapbike at verizon.net> writes:

> It has always been.

-- The initial poster on this thread, Andy (?) Shoop, was quoting from a Boston city ordinance, linked directly to the bike traffic ordinance, which allows for a warrantless arrest and a small monetary fine.  This kind of law (penalizing the failure to identify yourself to police) was challenged in, I think, Nevada three or four years ago, and the Supreme Court did, unfortunately, uphold it, but only because it was linked to the idea of the detainee being at the scene of an apparent crime.  The ordinance quoted here is clearly designed to enable police to break up the critical mass, as such, and to allow the police to target nonconforming cyclists generally for harassment.  If you are not driving an automobile, why should you be required to carry identification? and be subject to punishment if you are not, and do not choose to identify yourself?

R.