Passengers to be arrested for not showing their ID's
Welcome to 'nightmare 2017' where police in Arizona can arrest and fine passengers $750.00 for not showing their photo ID's.
Arizona's House Bill 2305 would make it a crime for passengers to decline to provide a photo ID to police. Passengers who fail to provide an ID could be sentenced to four months in jail and a $750.00 fine.
Six days ago, the House Panel ok'd the bill allowing cops to demand passengers show their ID.
"A person other than the driver of a motor vehicle who fails or refuses to provide evidence of the person's evidence of identity to a peace officer or a duly authorized agent of a traffic enforcement agency on request, when such officer or agent has reasonable cause to believe the person has committed a violation of this title, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor."
It makes me wonder, if Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't still in office.
Meter maids can arrest passengers
The Bill goes on to explain, that meter maids (parking enforcement officers) and traffic cops can DEMAND to see a passengers ID.
"A peace officer or duly authorized agent of a traffic enforcement agency may give the signal or instruction required by subsection A of this section by hand, emergency light, voice, whistle or siren." Rep. Richard Andrade warned, a bicyclist who rolls through a crosswalk could be arrested if they don't have an ID. Rep. Noel Campbell warned, the way the Bill is worded, children and teens could be fined for not carrying their ID's.
Wouldn't this also mean, passengers in buses, trains, taxis and UBER's are required to show their ID's?
"This proposal [Bill] takes us one step closer to a society in which we're required to carry identification whenever we leave our homes" said Steve Kilar, spokesperson with the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona.
The ACLU is right, this is the very definition of a police state! Politician claims forcing passengers to show ID's is about safety "We want to make sure passengers identify themselves correctly in any vehicle that's stopped by a police officer," said Rep. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, the sponsor of House Bill 2305. "This is about giving officers the ability to do their job correctly. An officer needs to know who is in the vehicle. It's about safety, from an officer's standpoint."
How can they get away with it you ask? DHS/Police exploit a loophole which claims, it's a privilege to drive in America. (click here to learn more.)
Because driving is a privilege, police are allowed to conduct over TEN different types of checkpoints, force driver's to breath into a breathalyzer, draw a person's blood by force and Taser or shoot innocent passengers. By the end of this year, cops will force motorists to breath into pot breathalyzers.
How long will it take, for police to require passengers across the country to carry ID's, two maybe three years?
Below are some videos of police demanding passengers show an ID: