While at a train station trying to do my best deciphering the train schedule and directions ( I have basic understanding of French) a policeman came up to my wife and I and asked us for our passports. Obviously we stood out. Probably our conversing in English.
He was polite and courteous. We showed him our papers, he thanked us and asked if he could help. All in all it was a good experience. He was doing his job and I did not feel one bit of uneasiness.
For those that are in this country, if you are legal And following the laws, you have nothing to fear. That you are being profiled is bull. You obviously stick out and the police are doing their jobs. Suck it up.
I really have no issue with police ASKING. No idea what the laws are in France regarding this.
Given the amount of difficult situations LEO's encounter, it's no wonder they can be on edge during what externally looks like a simple Q and A session.
She blurts to the whole ....."97 % of scientists agree on Global climate change..." and
"Police target Blacks...."
Profiling; I think someone like that^ needs to do a ride along with a cop in Detroit for a week. Make them walk up to the window of a blacked out low rider and see how they feel.
She is a about to do a study for U of W on something....I can only imagine the bias she possesses.
I don't speak a lick of French, and quickly learned that native Parisians weren't too helpful unless they wanted to sell me something. I learned to look for immigrant-looking types. They were usually only too happy to use their English and give me some help.
Now rural France was different. . . . While based in Geneva for a month studying, a couple of us took a train over to watch a leg of the Tour de France. The small town French were awfully nice to us
