All of my encounters with the police have friendly, helpful and professional, even if I was just involved in a traffic accident.
Then again, I'm white.
If I was First Nations and liked to drink a lot, the police around here might drive me to the edge of town on a cold day and confiscate my shoes.
I respect the police, because the police have never been used as a tool to oppress my people. Others can't say the same, so they don't respect the police as much. Police aren't very helpful when you don't respect their authority. I'm not trying to excuse any of this behavior, especially not when it gets compounded by other racist ideas, but I do understand where the strife is coming from.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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