Brooklyn Cop Forces Rabbi To Write On the Sabbath

Yesterday's New York Post reports on a run-in between a 27 year old Orthodox rabbi and Brooklyn police when Rabbi Sholom Emert was stopped for jaywalking after sundown on Friday.  Because the rabbi could not carry on the Sabbath, he had no identification. He offered to show his ID to the police if they would accompany him home. The police officer instead told him that he must write down his name.  Writing also violates the Sabbath, but the rabbi complied under threat of otherwise being detained.  Rabbi Emert says this is the first time in his life that he has broken the Sabbath.