re: I said, "My name is Patrick!"(police bodycam)

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They tell him to get out of the car repeatedly and he refuses? He tells them to "call his people" but they still don't know who he is. They tell him they are going to tase him if he doesn't comply and he tries to shut the door on them?

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He DID get out of the car. He gave them his name (twice) and stood up out of the car, where the officers then told him he was being arrested (despite never so much as asking for an ID and being told he wasn't who they were looking for) and he promptly sits back down. Had Patrick obeyed, he literally would have been in handcuffs and in the back of a police car before anyone even attempted to figure out if he was who they were after.

It blows my mind that some of you think this was appropriate police behavior. I have a strong suspicion that if this had been a 24 year old white LSU student with no criminal history the response would be pure, unanimous outrage.