[rlmorel]

I think the guy is a dick, and I think it is all overdone.

And I think being assaulted by the police at gunpoint and being robbed for THAT is stupid.

But when you are in a foreign country, your rules and norms just simply do not apply. That is why many of us who have been around the USA love this country. It isn’t perfect, but it makes sense most of the time.

[Gaffer]

I spent 8+ years in the military almost 7 of them overseas as an unprotected person subject to the whims and fancies of local authorities. I know how to act in those instances. He did not.

[DiogenesLamp]

But when you are in a foreign country, your rules and norms just simply do not apply. That is why many of us who have been around the USA love this country. It isn’t perfect, but it makes sense most of the time.

So getting robbed at gunpoint by the local authorities is just something we should accept?

I'm kinda thinking that if this is the normal and accepted practice in other countries, our state department should issue travel warning and advisories to any Americans thinking of visiting such countries where local police robbing you is a normal and accepted practice among the locals.