United States v. John Broomfield

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

At 8:25 one October night in an Indiana town, a patrolling police officer received word from his dispatcher that eight min utes earlier a store had been held up by a black man wearing dark clothing and brandishing a silver-colored pistol, who having completed the robbery had fled on foot. Fifteen to twenty minutes after receiving the news the officer spotted a black man in dark clothing less than a mile from the site of the robbery. There were few pedestrians about, so the officer thought this might be the robber. He told him to stop and to take his hands out of his…