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So I went to Warsaw - my thoughts after visiting Poland [88]
And have you any theories of why the lad posted the video? We can tell from his voice and actions that he was a middle class student type, not a crim - but the police in the usual Polish town are so dim they wouldn't know the difference.. After a quick initial stop, it was harrassment. Pure and simple. Though it all boils down to what sort of a society you want I suppose.
I have been stopped and searched a few times in London...
"Sorry sir - we've had a few burglaries around here lately...would you mind telling us what's in that bag....would you mind if we took a look....?
"Certainly officer - no problem....."
"Oh OK...sorry about that......thank you sir....yes..we're having a few problems here....thank yyou for your co-operation.....Bye now!"
That little typical exchange takes a couple of minutes...........co-operation is the name of the game when the police are doing what we pay them for.
This on the other hand was intimidation and harassment. Poor policing in my opinion. And I would have told them so, obstructed them, and so held them up for a good forty minutes so they would think hard next time..
I would take that film to the school director and have the school make a complaint that one of its pupils was being harassed. Then I would give that student a school award for behaving impeccably in the face of provocation from that gormless male officer.
What we want is a society where people are stopped when there is reason to believe a crime may have been committed. Here a schoolboy is riding along a Warsaw street in minus 11 on his way to school (with a bag - which is a useful thing to take to school......). But Sherlock came to the amazing deduction that the rider just may be one of Polands' criminal masterminds on his way back from a heist, on a stolen bike because his BMW is at the mechanics.
