Death of consul's daughter spurs Venezuela outcry

[joshcryer]

34. No, the point is that it's not unreasonable for some young dude to fear for his life...

...at a "checkpoint" where no police lights were flashing.

The only thing this might have to do with the "president of that country" is that crime rates have skyrocketed since the "president of that country" came to power, necessitating people being cautious about "checkpoints" after dark. Particularly checkpoints where no police lights were flashing.

That "some guy used this as an excuse" is just whitewashing corrupt police practices. If that happened here we would not be defending the police.

"Checkpoint extortion" is extremely common in the developing world, as you yourself experienced.

But somehow American complacency is to tell others that they should suck it up.

BTW, it was night time, you don't know if they saw guns until it was too late. You don't know what was going through the mind of the driver.