Hoboken man faces jail time because he wouldn’t tell cop what country he was from

HOBOKEN AND BEYOND — A Hoboken resident said he wouldn’t tell a Port Authority cop which country he was from — and subsequently got slapped with a “disorderly persons” ticket.
For two years, he’s been fighting it in court.
(He’s from Bulgaria, by the way.)
Is it constitutional? What’s behind it? Read the story that appeared in this past weekend’s Hoboken Reporter.

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