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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I get video does not exist. Look, what I am saying is that policing is a hell of a lot different in Canada than in the U.S., if an officer wants your I.D. he will explain why, or he should. I don't understand why someone would not show their I.D. unless they didn't want that officer to know who they were for some legal reason. You have still not given any other reason why.
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Because in the US, for black men and women, a large number of officers are regularly stopping them, frisking them, harassing them, shooting at them without real cause, simply for sitting on a bench, kissing their significant other in a public place, buying a BB gun at a Walmart. Police have no one to blame but their own when minorities in this country treat them as the enemy.
I haven't been to Canada in quite some time, but I'd imagine it isn't a weekly occurrence up there for an officer to wrongly arrest, harass, or even murder someone. Down here it's all part of the same old, same old. Yes, there are many good, well meaning police officers. But there's a disturbing number of officers who were poorly trained, trigger happy, and intoxicated by the power of the position.