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https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-1036.ZO.html
Interesting read. So, apparently, when confronted by cops, it is legal to go about one's business and ignore them. Running, unprovoked, is enough for reasonable suspicion.
" Such a holding is entirely consistent with our decision in Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491 (1983), where we held that when an officer, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, approaches an individual, the individual has a right to ignore the police and go about his business. Id., at 498. And any “refusal to cooperate, without more, does not furnish the minimal level of objective justification needed for a detention or seizure.” Florida v. Bostick,
501 U.S. 429, 437 (1991). But unprovoked flight is simply not a mere refusal to cooperate. Flight, by its very nature, is not “going about one’s business”; in fact, it is just the opposite. Allowing officers confronted with such flight to stop the fugitive and investigate further is quite consistent with the individual’s right to go about his business
or to stay put and remain silent in the face of police
questioning."
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS UP WITH THE DA...
YOU KNOW...THE ONE THAT WENT TO LAW SCHOOL...
THE ONE THAT FILED CHARGES...