To start: if you’re operating a vehicle, your right to refuse to id is pretty slim (they need a reasonable articulable suspicion usually, but there’s a chance they have one. Ask for it.).

That said… The laws on this vary state by state. Some states do have stop and id, others do not. Everyone would do well to know the laws for where they are, if they want to refuse id. Even as a motorist, they need a reason to stop you.

Where I am, they’d need to detain me before I’m required to id (as a pedestrian). I am not allowed to lie about my name, so answering, “Mickey Mouse” could technically give them the legal ammo to require real ID (full name, birth date). For a motor vehicle stop they are required to state why they stopped me as the conversation begins. None of this, “do you know why I pulled you over?” and other pretextual stuff.

Some people know their rights and exercise them. The police are supposed to respect those rights. When they do, nothing happens, the video isn’t click-worthy and it doesn’t get published. I think you’re seeing some selection bias.

Audit the audit, civil rights lawyer and other YT channels try to paint an accurate picture of our rights, how and when we can exercise them, and when the police go so far that someone gets paid.

I’ll add: the police having a policy of documenting every interaction, and including the name of the person, does not supercede any rights given by law. They get confused or angry sometimes, but as they’d tell us, ignorance of the law is no defense.

Edits: fixed autocorrect.