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I get tired of saying this but "got misidentified by the police" is somewhere between an annoyance and a humourous anecdote in most developed countries that aren't the USA where it appears to be justifiably regarded as a near death experience.

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a significant portion of police training literally teaches them to fear your regular citizen. they're taught that anybody may be armed and they face the chance of death at every traffic stop and are shown dashcam footage of the worst incidents where this did happen without the probabilistic context

see https://revealnews.org/podcast/what-cops-arent-learning/

To touch on the probabilities, they're probably more likely to die getting side swiped by a car, than getting shot by the person they're stopping.

Community policing, it aint.

I dunno, this is Czech police approaching scammer on the phone, not sure why they need to throw even scammer on the ground. I would not consider this mild annoyance or humorous anecdote if pigs threw me on the ground.

Video in article - the white hoodie boy is innocent https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-policiste-se-omylem-vrhl...

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