Ah, so just like the US then!

Zip code depending of course.

Good point.

Police in America don't control residents. Most of the time they can't even control themselves.

They control unwanted residents, and unarmed[1] protesters.

[1] They prefer not to fuck with the armed ones.

Don't flatter yourself. Nothing happened in 2020 that hasn't happened a lot worse, a lot more times before in America. If anything, the police were surprisingly ineffectual at protecting the owners' interests. I'll step out and burn a flag all day long in the street. They ain't gonna arrest me.

I've seen the police publicly flog random people on the street in Vietnam just for being in their way. What a wonderfully just, equitable socialist paradise.

Go check out and live in a country where the police actually control people and get back to me.