“At the time he was being detained, one of the five officers involved can be heard telling him, ‘Ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ ‘And yet they were all ignorant of the the law,’ said Sorensen. ‘And I was trying to tell them what the law was, and they didn’t want to listen to me.’ Sorensen said he can’t believe none of the five officers, including at least three sergeants, knew of the change. He said he’s also concerned about a sergeant who told him, ‘You’re about to get the (expletive) kicked out of you,’ after Sorensen twice refused to put his hands up while he was being detained.”
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