Im a second generation immigrant from a muslim country. I lived 20 years of my life in one of the top 5 cities in france in terms of HLM (projects). Not once I have been humiliated by Police. In some places of my city cops "do not come because they cant drive there". My brother got a knife to his throat for walking there at night. Not once I have been asked to check ID randomly. I've seen many of people that leftists would define as "like me" being "victim" of controle au facies and arrested. they mostly had something in common. Just like the people that the cops arrest for 70% of the crimes of this city, they were dressing like rap singers, swearing to cops, literally trying to beat you if you did not belong to "this project" and if you dared to walk around their hood. They also were seeing education as useless because they could make much more in the hood. So you can imagine that for people of those projects, watching Hip Hop, watching those guys outside make money free from any kind of police repercussion VS going to school and trying to have a side job at macdonald to make enough money to afford stuff it was not a difficult choice. And if you dared not to make this choice they would call you "white guy" or "uncle tom" in the US.

The fallacy of the left is that for them (in France and USA) a black person or a muslim person is of one kind. just like a hivemind we have to be all same and opressed because cops are bad.

What was the issue for me during those 20 years were the rampant religious zealots trying to push their agenda on me. Forcing girls to wears the "right" clothes, building one-way windows hairdresser for women and islamic supermarkets right in the city center. Backed by leftists that again thought of immigrant as some kind of hivemind that all wanted this "religious freedom" they called through their "anti racism" campaigns. Ive seen all those leftist coming to some neighborhood and praising themselves of living among the diversity and sending their kids to private school too so that they don't spend time with the immigrants sons. I am not denying that the police makes mistakes, that controle au facies has some negative effects witht people who dress like rap / hood dudes and have normal decent lives but its more a by product of them tolerating the other side of the "immigrants" because of the lies the left sold them : that they are all same opressed by a society that does not want them. My life shows me that we are all same below the 1% whatever our color those are the people that will make us suffer, lower our wage, push our retirement age. the cops are just a piece of a broken system that are also victim of those 1%. Ive worked through my career with cops and I would never want to do their job in a country like France or the US.