@futurebird a former colleague of mine was filming when a cop came to him agressivily and he replied: "oh but it's to protect you, you know, just in case"
He was white, looking like "a good guy" so he used that to fool the police (it worked)
It takes some nerve to do that, but hey, it's a method
And yes in France we have the exact same problems, except that so far we don't have ICE