🚔Cedar Rapids. Public street. A parked squad car. A camera. A First Amendment auditor is filming a police vehicle from the sidewalk — public property, public view, no touching, no blocking, no crime. Then Investigator Matt Denlinger, badge 830, steps into the frame. Not the marked-unit traffic stop version... of the job. The cold-case guy with no visible police ID. And the first move is the oldest line in these videos: 🤨I need to see your ID. The auditor doesn’t bite. Filming a public car on a public street isn’t a crime. Iowa doesn’t have a blanket stop-and-identify law for a consensual encounter. You can ask. They can walk. Policy is not statute. Denlinger wants a name. The camera wants a badge number. That’s the whole dance. No cuffs. No ticket. No Gazette headline. Just a detective claiming a camera is reasonable suspicion. Here’s the rule they keep teaching the hard way: the First Amendment doesn’t care how weird it looks to stand on a sidewalk and film a government car. Suspicious is not the same as illegal. A request is not a command. And “because I said so” is not probable cause. Watch the clip. Count how many times the officer asks for ID. Then count the crimes. ❓What would you have told Denlinger? ❓Is filming a police car reasonable suspicion of a crime?show more

@CR_Police why are we expected to tolerate such ignorance and arrogance from public servants? Dismissive of constitutional rights and not identifying himself. Fix your garbage. @CivilRights

This stupid motherfucker needs to lose his badge

"What crime do you suspect me of?" Repeat until they leave.

Cops get one tiny little pebble of an idea in their empty skulls & let it rattle around like a dog with a bone. They just keep chewing & chewing & chewing. Not a single thought enters their brain. No law required. No clue how stupid they sound. Just repeat it 29 times.

How does an ID make you unsuspicious?

What crime has the guy with the camera committed @USApolice you dips#%€£ recording on video a police car from a side walk IN PUBLIC is protected under the 1st Amendment unless the constitution of the United States has been completely changed in the last 100 years

ID to a cop is like meth to a meth head

Just tell the cop you have a flock camera and he will be ok with it.

Denlingers yet another pissed off person placed in a position of authority. He’s pissed because he’s a baldy is my guess …….

This cop is beat, he just will not admit it

Intelligence gathering. Our laws being used against us. 1st amendment auditors are not Robin Hood.

Honest question, why do they want your name so much? Like nothing changes

Retard investigator needs fired credentials revoked permanently nationwide

All cops suck. All cops are useless. All cops are corrupt.

No ID, No Badge, if he flashes a gun or tries to touch you your 2A rights come into play. Is it!!!

False statement 1st thing. "I have the right to stop you and demand ID if I see you doing something suspicious" False. It has to be suspect you of committing a crime. I can stand around and look "suspicious" all I want. As long as it doesn't look like criminal activity

If you are an investigator, than you should be investigating who left the laptop open! Fucking dumbass 😂

They get stuck on wanting ID. Doesn't matter if they just talk to you, think you look funny, or what, they always NEED that ID. They gotta train them to ask something different. It's pretty crazy how they just get stuck on that shit even when it's not rightfully theirs to ask for

“It’s not public information.” You made it public when you displayed it…in public.

This robot is broken.. I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID I need to see your ID

If you don't want anything visible like a laptop screen shown reason why they're called laptops because they have a lid and you can close the lid and no one can read what it says I think it's the cops fault for doing leaving it open and if it's in plain view is perfectly fine

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🤔💭. don’t gaslight him you stupid stupid little👮🏻‍♂️💩. It’s your job to protect that information on your laptop. You fucking moron. You’re not providing privacy because you have a fucking badge. Everybody needs to create their own privacy in public 💀💀

I wish I had Superman powers some times.

ALL COPS SUCK.

Random stop and ID thought they did away with that you look suspicious. Give me your ID.

Wtf 😳 come on man

Every few years, breaks into my family house at night, drugs/rapes me, films a video of it, steals trophies to go with these bizarre videos from random stalkers, wages terror threats vs college/tech/media campuses for hosting me, theaters, ballet classes, events, sororities, etc.

Look ma, another petty tyrant asshole. Everybody in law enforcement envisions themselves as super secret special agent on a mission from the higher powers and can do whatever the fuck they want because they shave their head and put a piece of brass in their pocket.

Investigator needs fired cred

Bald clown should do his civic duty and go lie in traffic

#acab

Sack him