I’ve been on the receiving end of that sort of behavior.
When I was a little kid and we lived in Nigeria in the middle of a military/army coup.
Every checkpoint in the capital cito was staffed by 8 or 10 ‘cops’. Each car would have 4 or 5 long guns trained on it. 2 or 3 on the driver (my mom) and 1 or 2 on the passengers. I was in the back seat. I was three or four years old at the time. I distinctly remember looking up gun barrels while my mom fished for her papers to pass through the checkpoint to take me to kindergarten.
Nice to know we are at least as free as war-torn Nigeria.
I’m very comforted.