RE: UK police, (low audi content)

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> I was stopped by a marked police car the DAY before literally no more 
> than 1 MILE from where I got stopped yesterday!!!
> Within 7 months that means I've been stopped  4 times by the police 
> for doing absolutely nothing wrong! Is that age discrimination or 
> what!!. God knows what it would be like if I was black.
> 
> Is it just me or is being stopped and having hassle by the police so 
> much infringing my right to freedom?
> 
... that is indeed bad, but let me tell you that getting pulled over on a
motorcycle for no apparent reason and then checking rear view mirrors after
stopping and seeing two officers crouched behind open doors and a service
revolver aimed at you from the driver's side and a sawed-off shotgun on the
passenger's side ... both aimed in a direction that pretty much guaranteed a
mortal wound ... is an experience I would rather have foregone ...

It was because someone had robbed a local bank and escaped on a blue
motorcycle ... but it still makes me wonder why the police here are trained
threaten [and use] deadly force so readily ... once you've shot and killed
somebody, apologies are pretty useless ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)