Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were “foreigners”.

  • NIB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It was this shit.

    Police checking your papers for a couple minutes and leaving?

    Having checked the hiking group’s documents which proved the whole group was in Germany legally, police said they ended the operation.

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      1 year ago

      No. The resolution of this specific circumstance in this specific location is not what I mean by this shit.

      By this shit I mean the general danger of being the wrong color in nature.

      In Europe, there’s nearly zero chance of running into serious, life-threatening, interpersonal trouble on a hike, no matter your color. That is less certain in parts of the United States.

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      1 year ago

      If only all police were honorable and law-abiding and the laws were written to benefit the ordinary person. That would be an amazing world, wouldn’t it? Ah well, it’s important to have dreams.