Originally Posted by
bjr_93tz
And that's the crux right there, the police were being prejudiced. There was no law being broken and no real danger to the public, only the sight of the quad being set up.
In Australia if the police ask you to pack up and move on and you don't, you have broken a law (failing to obey a lawful instruction) irrespective of whether they have a lawful reason to ask you to move on or not so it'd be like trying to argue a bad call with the Referee over here.....
Not exactly correct, they do have to have a lawful reason. Cops have to suspect that you may be going to disrupt the peace, behave in a way that may be dangerous to public safety or likely to cause injury or damage to property.
They can't just do whatever they want. And that's the problem because most of them do. Power tripping.