If there is one thing that people don’t want to have to deal with, it is having to prove to whatever authority and under whatever circumstances that they are who they are, especially when there isn’t any good or necessary reason that this must be done, and oftentimes those who have to provide such proof appear clearly to have been discriminated against and specifically targeted. To live in any nation in which certain people because of their look or apparent class, or basically their surface characteristics which are thus in conformance to what that nation appears strongly to favor, who consequently are left to go about their business as per their inclination, in which we find that in that very same nation there are a multitude of those that do not fit into those orthodox surface characteristics are thus being subject to being stopped and having to identify themselves, represents a clear and obvious difference between these two types of people, which thus favors one while discriminating against the other.
There are very few people who welcome an interaction with the policing arm of the state, especially when their person is at a reasonable risk that they will be detained or arrested under either a pretense or for some other dubious reason. Additionally, most people desire to be able to go about their business and do not appreciate being stopped, frisked, or made to unduly identify themselves not only because of the inconvenience and the humiliation, so of, but also because it makes them to feel lesser than all those others that don’t have to go through this inconvenience, and some of those people so stopped, end up having to suffer something far worse.
So too, with the state getting more and more into facial recognition, monitoring, and the like, we find that those that are stopped are not typically being stopped at random, but rather they have been targeted to be stopped, which may well be because they have been misidentified -- and when this occurs again and again, this clearly is a violation of their basic civil rights. Indeed, in absence of compelling proof that all denizens of this nation are always treated in the same way, subject to the same application of the laws, and done so fairly, we have a situation in which some are treated differently than others, and just about everyone in that type of circumstance, wants to be treated favorably because they want to be able to be free to be about their business.
The fact that the United States seems to be devolving into a state in which those that are unfavored, targeted, or just in the wrong place at the wrong time, are basically being compelled by law to identify themselves just makes for what is essentially a police state, in which some are privileged -- whereas others are not privileged, which is at odds to what this nation is supposed to be about and therefore should be seen for what it is, a concentrated assault upon our liberties and anathema to what our revolution of independence and freedom was all about.