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In reply to the discussion: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)and they have compulsory voting, too, so that won't happen that wingnuts take over the country like the US has been. They also don't jail people for sneezing in public.
The US? Being sighted by police is pretty much a guarantee that you will be harassed by them, no matter how white, green, black or yellow you are. They harass because they can and there is no reprisal for it. "I don't like your shoes." Expect to get hauled down the street like the girl that was jogging and was grabbed by two cops because she was "jaywalking" while jogging and accidentally jogged out of campus.
Clearly, jogging anywhere without papers, or without being prepared to being grabbed by police officers from behind shouldn't scare anyone one. You should automatically assume it is the police and this is not a beat down or a robbery, just police exercising justice.
That's essentially what that story illustrated.
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