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Ah, they are getting the American treatment! Just to harass you, American Police can invoke imminent domain on anything that you own, even if it's not related to the investigation. I had a roommate that was accused of a crime, and even though they were acquitted, the police still took & kept all of our computers, our phones, and just random things like music players. I worked with a lawyer, found out that my stuff was just in a police warehouse, but there was no way I could get it. They're allowed to just keep things. Taking people to the station and then making them walk home is also a common tactic here: embarrass them when you get "arrested
Oops, that's sent too early & I don't see a way to edit it....
Anyway, I mean to say : embarrass you when you get "arrested" but then there is no fanfare for your "release" right after. I was harassed by the same police at a different time, in the same city, and they tried to pull me over for a reckless driving. I made them state the charges for me, and when they couldn't explain what crime I had committed, they tried to arrest me. only because I knew my rights, and because I understood what they were trying to do was I able to be safe. I asked them practical questions about what would happen with my car, where would I go, reminded them that I was a minor, (Yes they were harassing a 16-year-old.... So shameful) And it seemed to kind of shake them out of it. They wrote me a ticket, I took it to court, it was thrown out and the judge made a comment about the police officer but that was it. There is no justice for people who are harassed by the police. Seemingly in any country...
The obvious difference is that I am in Europe, which is not a continent-wide lunatic asylum, at least it is not supposed to be one. Here this is not in fashion.
Nobody here looks up to USA, full of gun-toting, under-educated lawyered-up madmen.
(Obviosuly the exception is those who can actually think, but sometimes I have the strange feeling that I know them all... the whole few dozens of them.)