Michael Jennings, a Black pastor from Childersburg, Alabama, was watering his neighbor’s flowers when he was confronted by police officers who demanded his identification, accusing him of acting “suspicious.”
But Jennings, w ho is also a former police officer, knew his constitutional rights and refused to hand over his identification, telling the officers that he was “Pastor Jennings,” who lives across the street and that he was watering his neighbor’s plants while they were out of town. He even dared the cops to arrest him.
“Lock me up and see what happens,” he said, the body camera footage depicts…