Reply #16: you can seriously doubt anything you like [View All]

[iverglas]

but if you'd read what I said sometime in the last week, or done a little investigation of your own, you would know there is no such thing as a "Terry stop" in Canada. In fact, no one is under any obligation ever to identify themself to a cop. Not even once they're arrested, although at that point they do have to submit to fingerprinting if the charge laid is one that provides for that.

A cop can make all the enquiries they like, but if the person being enquired of chooses not to enter into conversation or not to identify themself, the cop has two choices: arrest, if there are reasonable grounds as required, or walk away.


Displaying gang affiliation, or even being in a gang, is not illegal.

DUH. Neither is carrying a firearm if you're not ineligible. So neither is doing the two things simultaneously. So where does this "Terry stop" come into the situation at all? Is the gang get-up reasonable grounds to believe that the person carrying the firearm is ineligible and therefore committing a crime? I Don't Think So.


However a member of a known violent group, who is carrying a firearm, would certainly be grounds for a police officer to inquire as to whether that person was in legal possession of the firearm.

"However". Okey dokey. Because you sez so.

Not.