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sl8

(17,010 posts) Mon Jan 12, 2026, 08:20 AM 19 hrs ago

Alabama Supreme Court weighs ID requirement during police stops

This is the case where an Alabama pastor was watering his neighbor's flowers and was arrested for not providing police with his ID.

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Alabama Supreme Court weighs ID requirement during police stops

WAFF 48 News & Weather
Jan 9 2026

The Alabama Supreme Court is considering whether police can require people to show identification during stops.

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Alabama Supreme Court weighs ID requirement during police stops (Original Post) sl8 19 hrs ago OP

I remember this. SamKnause 19 hrs ago #1

A clear case of WFWB Bo Zarts 18 hrs ago #2

When I read the title, first thing I thought.... 70sEraVet 17 hrs ago #3

This was decided by the US Supreme Court in 1979. rsdsharp 13 hrs ago #4

SamKnause

(14,727 posts)

1. I remember this.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 08:23 AM

19 hrs ago

It was disgusting.

Bo Zarts

(26,255 posts)

2. A clear case of WFWB

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 08:54 AM

18 hrs ago

Watering Flowers While Black

70sEraVet

(5,256 posts)

3. When I read the title, first thing I thought....

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:45 AM

17 hrs ago

It was referring to ICE agents having to show THEIR ID!
We are sailing new, unknown waters these days.

rsdsharp

(11,802 posts)

4. This was decided by the US Supreme Court in 1979.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 01:35 PM

13 hrs ago

In Brown v Texas, 443 US 47 (1979), the Court held that police cannot require a person to produce ID unless they have reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime afoot, based on specific objective facts.

The Alabama Supreme Court can expand those rights in the state, thereby making the ID test even more restrictive to the police, but they cannot loosen it.

Watering plants while black is not reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime.

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