Yeah, if you fought for freedom in WW2, and didn't grow up in a police state, it is easy to think you can still get out of your car and go over and talk to a cop. The rest of us know to stay in car, heads bowed, eyes down, hands on the steering wheel, and say "yes sir" and "no sir".
Sadly, you nailed it.
Now it is supposed to be, “Yassir massa or Nawsir massa”. Or, here come the bullets.