You should stop trying to quote the names of logical fallacies, you clearly don't know what they mean.

It sure sounds like a stitch up, when you are detained and the officer then tells you they are trying to find a reason why they detained you. Stopping people and threatening them with finding a reason isn't part of the job of the police. They can stop people with reasonable suspicion, they can't stop people to fish for suspicion and that's what the officer said he was doing.

What to appear to be arriving is this is somehow ok that the officer lied about doing an illegal stop and search when it actually was legal. Wtf.

  why don't you try explaining the joke to me, because I don't get what's funny about being stopped and having an officer day they are trying to find a reason. Sounds like a very threatening stitch up, especially as they have a history of doing such things especially to black people

Just a joke bro lighten up, we might actually be about to arrest you for being black with intent but it's a joke bro otherwise we'll arrest you. Where's the humour?

The Police legally obliged to tell you why stopped you and want ID or to search you. Telling an off colour joke in lieu of that is literally illegal in these circumstances. Also I still don't get the joke.

The fact remains you made such false accusation in this case.

Don't make shit up. I wasn't accusing the police of literally doing all those things to this one person in this particular case. Those are all things the police have done and well you know it, specially to black people.

The facial recognition's match for a suspect constitutes a reasonable belief that warrants sending out an officer to make contact.

And the police offer can bloody tell the suspect what the reasonable belief is rather than in your words being "sarcastic" at him which sounds very much like a threat to stitch him up.

Sarcastically saying you are wanted if you are the person we suspect you of being?

Stop making shit up. They didn't say that, they stopped him then said they'd figure out what he was suspected of.

It's crazy how Slashdot's commentariat has pivoted to spouting and defending the bullshit the RIAA and MPAA have always been spewing and which old Slashdot would have shat on liberally.

I don't think that's what's happening here. What you're seeing is a lot of bitterness and sarcasm. Copyright laws are bullshit, but the corporate world damned well ought to live by the draconian laws they purchased.

One thing worse than shitty, draconian laws are shitty and draconian laws that are enforced to the fullest extent against some groups while others are given a free pass.

32 of 50 states voted for Trump.

There is no way that red states are gonna vote against their own interests.

You kinda contradicted yourself there, bud.

Oh ok! I am happy to engage in silliness about artisanal road diggers (from Shoreditch/Portland).

You think the police have never done that shit tob people? and aren't institutionally racist?

K, bruv.

What actually happened is someone, a black guy which is hardly irrelevant given the generally attitude of the MET, was stopped and when he asked why the policeman said he was going to find out. If the police stop you and can't give a reason why, that's flat out harassment.

If they're was a reason maybe they should have, I don't know, told the guy why they had stopped him instead of a vague threat about finding something.

You're the one that claimed the policeman was being sarcastic to the person he just detained. Now you say it never happened. Your could be employed by the met as a spokesman with that attitude

It's the officer sarcastically saying

Hey just joking bro. It's a joke bro. Sure I can make your life miserable, lock you up for a few days and probably get away with beating you up, and sure we have a reputation of doing this extra to black people like you but it's a joke, bro, lighten up!

Fucking hell the police bootlickers are swarming this thread.

If you detain someone and demand ID (something which we are not required to carry) that's not the time to be sarcastic towards people who have every reason to be both suspicious and fearful of you.

WTF are you talking about? What is the basis of the facial recognition match?

RTFS, m8.

"When I asked what I was wanted for, they said, 'that's what we're here to find out'."

You'll hate watch it.

Nothing wrong with that. I've hate-read entire series of books.

People resembling a suspect have been stopped and interviewed

When before did police stop people by saying "you're under suspicion of something but we have no idea what now we will search you". Come off it, this is bullshit and you know it.

No one is stopped and interview merely because of a facial recognition, but also because the officer on the scene, face to face with the person, agrees that this person looks like the suspect and their ID needs to be checked.

Citation-fucking-needed. This is the MET we are talking about here.

This man refused to provide fingerprints.

Which is he right. This is just another example of the police, and especially the MET being shitweasel fascists.

The "stop and frisk on steroids" was brought on by his own actions.

This is industrial grade victim blaming here. Do you actually work for the MET because this could have been taken right from they playbook.

The police are not meant to be dogs. They have human agency. Th fault is theirs.

4th amendment protects you against unlawful searches.

Resisting arrest are you, son? On the ground ! Not fast enough, now you're dead. And qualified immunity means that it's not illegal for the officer to execute you while shouting that exact sequence of words.

The 4th and 5th amendments only protect you after the fact in court, and might stop you getting imprisoned on the basis of illegally obtained evidence. They don't do shit to prevent police harassment and general malfeasance.

Might they overreach?

They do, all the time.

By gosh you're right. Now we just need to build a rail to everyone's house. Why didn't anyone think of that!

You see those two fleshy appendages on the lower half of your body? They're not just for looks or pressing pedals. If you wiggle them just right you can perambulate to the station.

Next up: why this is impossible for the low income disabled plumber who urgently needs to take his elderly fridge to hospital.

At least some parts of the hole-digging exercise, even by apparent artisans, is a skilled endeavour.

The engineers. Not the people wielding the spades. I'm no sure what point the OP was trying to make and I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.