> surely I can’t impede law enforcement because they haven’t justified their authority to me
Unless you've broken the law (and certain special cases), they have no authority over you. Because of the nature of their jobs, which requires them to sometimes take away a person's freedom or life, they must be held to a much higher level of accountability than your average person.
You cite fear of harassment as a reason for not standing up to police, and to me that says something is deeply wrong with our current system.
>Unless you've broken the law (and certain special cases), they have no authority over you.
This is not true at the border. They can seize your property, and delay you for what the law would say is temporary, but is long enough to be a major inconvenience.
Unless you've broken the law (and certain special cases), they have no authority over you. Because of the nature of their jobs, which requires them to sometimes take away a person's freedom or life, they must be held to a much higher level of accountability than your average person.
You cite fear of harassment as a reason for not standing up to police, and to me that says something is deeply wrong with our current system.