That would not be an option for me, unless I violated the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. Apparently you have no problems with Constitutional rights violations.
+1 At least in regard to the OPer's encounter anyway.
Clearly the cop's initial "request" for ID was not really consensual. By this I mean the cop intended to get it all along. The cop never intended to not get the ID, or let the OCer make up his own mind about whether the ID would be handed over.
The cop just used the consensual approach initially as a ploy. Meaning, if he could sneakily get it consensually, the cop would then have the cover of it being a consensual action on the part of the OCer to hand it over.
If the cop really respected the 4th Amendment, he would have left the OCer alone after the initial refusal, the OCer's initial termination of the encounter. That is what the Fourth Amendment is really about--the right to be left alone. Or, as given in
Union Pacific Rail Co. vs Botsford:
No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.
No right. Held more sacred. More carefully guarded. Free from
all restraint. And,
all interference. Unless by
clear and unquestionable authority of law.
It is worth noting, very worth noting, that
Terry vs Ohio* quotes this case also. Meaning the Terry court felt it important enough to include--as written. They did not water it down. They did not re-write the concept in their own words. They did not leave it out of the opinion as they could have. There that quote sits, in the very opinion from which cops derive their authority to detain people.
The cop was playing a games with the 4th Amendment. He wanted that ID, he intended to get that ID. He had no intention of respecting the OPer's 4th Amendment right to refuse consent to a consensual encounter, the OPer's right to be free from all restraint, and all interference unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.
*
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0392_0001_ZO.html