I’m up in Canada so this stuff doesn’t affect me much … but I used to laugh at an old friend who used to actively avoid the cops. If he saw them up the street far away, he’d cross the street, turn into an alleyway or just turn around. If we were driving and he saw a cop car, he’d immediately turn anywhere and drive away. He wasn’t a criminal or anything, he just didn’t like police and avoided them. No matter the situation, if he saw a cop, he’d do everything to avoid even having the remote possibility of even interacting with the police.

This was years ago and since then I’ve been like that too but not as bad … but as the world becomes more authoritarian these days, especially when police training even in Canada is to just have a pulse and be a white male … I’m avoiding the police more actively than before.

My old friend Johnny was more right than I realized.