the United States Police It is famous for many reasons. For many it is just the body Hollywood He has been depicted many times in legendary films and series, and there is also a lot of knowledge about his daily life and practices, which are often controversial. … Because of the prevalence of procedures and issues that are sometimes, to say the least, questionable.
Whatever the case, what cannot be denied is that no one wants to have experiences with the police there, unless they are the ones who supervise passport security controls and authorize the passage of travelers. now, Davida Catalan who has lived in the United States for a long time, had his first experience with the police in the United States this week and wanted to tell us about it in his profile. TikTok (@playdabeat).
As he himself says, “Very unpleasant It is similar to what is seen on networks/movies. The Catalan wanted to say that he felt like a victim of “a complete abuse of power, both in form and content.” The video is receiving great attention on the Internet, exceeding 69,000 views in just two days.
A statement from Puerto Rico caught the attention of agents
“Come with me for my first experience with the police here in the United States,” he begins, using typical “influencer” style, asserting that “it was exactly as you can imagine.” It all started when a co-worker was driving David home and when they arrived they saw that a police car was following them and stopped them.
They stood still, They rolled down the window and asked for their documents.. “They tell us: ‘Let’s see, you don’t have weapons, do you?’ And we, no,” recalls the young man, who at that moment told the agents and his partner that they were university professors and could show their IDs. They told them, in a dry tone, that they did not care if they were teachers and that they wanted the documents.
“So my partner got a Puerto Rican driver’s license,” the agent thought and left. At that moment, David and his friend were surprised by the treatment they received. He commented, “With what I saw on the Internet, I expected them to break the glass, point guns at us, or tell us: Get down!” “Compared to that, it felt like a massage,” he recalls.
Since the officers didn’t say anything else and were in front of David’s house, he prepared to get out of the car, whereupon one of the police officers shouted at him to stay inside and told his partner that he would fine him “for blah blah blah and for driving without a driver’s licence.” “We said, ‘What do you mean without a driver’s license? “This is from Puerto Rico,” he says, and continues to explain the tense moment.
He, who works as an architect in the United States, points out to the camera that “Puerto Rico is an American territory, and it is not a state belonging to the United States, but it is within the United States,” just like the capital or the Virgin Islands. The young man says: “My partner is Puerto Rican and does not have a Puerto Rican passport. He has an American passport.”
David comments that he finds it “funny” because the car is a rental and if he didn’t have a legal passport they wouldn’t have let him have it, and because when the police officer finished “he left and let him keep driving.” For all this, the young man denounces that “this is clearly an abuse of power: the police officer was not willing to admit his mistake.”
Before he finished his thought, he explained that it was certainly possible to appeal the complaint, but stressed that “my partner does not live here, and he cannot go to court to get a fine of a few hundred dollars.” In any case, he clarifies that his complaint “is not about the fine either, but it is a fine and unfair.” “This is a combination of police corruption and ignorance or both,” says David.