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What it has to do with is this....you stated that they should have done nothing more after asking for his ID and he said he didn't have it...you also basicly said that because he was sitting in the passenger seat, there was no way for him to be doing anything wrong.A few times in my life, but what does that have to do with anything? Everybody who gets pulled over is not some drunken psycho that's going to take their shirt off after beating their woman.
I referenced the show COPS....because it shows all the time people "just sitting in the passenger seat" being wanted for one thing or another. Do you really think that a policeman should say "Well, no reason to check on that guy....he's just sitting in the passenger seat."? The nightly news is filled with stories that begin "Wanted criminal caught after routine traffic stop" or "Policeman killed while performing a routine traffic stop."
The point is....the police have to be prepared for the fact that everyone pulled over for a routine traffic stop has the possibility of being a psycho. I have been pulled over by the cops a bunch (a made a post describing a particular instance earlier)....it's annoying, but I don't take it personally....it's them doing their job to make the city safe for the rest of us to go driving about in the middle of the night.