Freedom Hating Brit Beaten up by US Cops for Crossing Road

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Really?

I was waiting at the mouth of my driveway yesterday to pull out into traffic, when a pedestrian walked up to my window (my driveway, as many do, crosses the sidewalk, so my vehicle was blocking the sidewalk as I waited for an opening in traffic). She was quite angry with me and told me in a voice that had quite an air of command to it that I had to back up off of the sidewalk to let pedestrians pass.

By your criteria, I should have assumed that she was a police officer and done exactly what she told me to do.

As it happens, I played the odds that she wasn't a police officer, and told her exactly what I thought she should do...

I thought you lived in Canada.

But they should not be able to do this in uniform, pretending to still be acting in their official capacity as police officers, when, in the case you describe, they are nothing more than Wal Mart employees.

Why not? They can still arrest people. They would be there to catch shoplifters not restock shelves or something.