In a free society, if you have not given an officer reason to think that you have committed some crime or are imminently going to commit some crime, then the officer should not even be looking at you. It ought to be illegal to do so. A prosecutable offense. Because it is invasive to be *checked out*/license plate scanned (and be recorded, in some states this is the case) when you’ve done nothing whatsoever to give anyone any reason to suspect that you’ve done a single thing to warrant it. The only people who should expect to be the focus of a cop’s attentions in a free society are people who’ve given reason to be suspicious of them. That’s it.
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