[stevenwoo]

In my American government class in high school in Texas in 1984, I was taught to behave in such a way - keep hands on wheel, do exactly what you are told to, don't move suddenly, to minimize the chance police will kill you, because they don't know if you are a criminal with a weapon or not and a police officer has to be prepared for either situation. It helps immensely to not be an ethnic minority - representations in popular culture in America alude to the life or death possibility of every police stop for those communities like the recent episodes of the TV shows Insecure or Dear White People or Bruce Springsteen's song, 41 Shots. The other side of the coin is America extremely rarely prosecutes a police officer for killing someone, no matter what the circumstances, even if there is video.