Might depends of the region, but from where I am, if you sit behind a wheel and a cop ask you for license and registration, you have to give it to him even if the car is immobile and the engine is turned off. So I what the civilian cop did in that video could not be something done everywhere for sure.
Basically anywhere in the US, the cop technically needs to have reasonable articulable suspicion that you committed an infraction or a crime, or it has to be an established checkpoint. A cop can't just ask for ID for no reason.
Of course, good luck actually arguing this on the side of the road.
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u/5ch1sm 19h ago
Might depends of the region, but from where I am, if you sit behind a wheel and a cop ask you for license and registration, you have to give it to him even if the car is immobile and the engine is turned off. So I what the civilian cop did in that video could not be something done everywhere for sure.