I'll only address the everyday life and touch a bit on the cops here. Starting with the latter, I haven't had many brushes with them, the only thing of note is that, without going into detail because it's nobody on here's business, a crime scene happened, my laptop and external hard drive were taken in as evidence for really no reason other than a detective seeing me type on the laptop. I was modding a porn forum at the time and I had to quickly inform the rest of the staff that I'll probably be going away for a while. I explained that I was "posting a message" to someone, saying I have to leave. That's it, but yet they took my stuff, and I still haven't gotten them back, it's been 5 years. I've tried calling them about getting it back and it went nowhere. Non-personal times, whatever, they do stuff. I can't assess if they're good or bad on any other situation other than the one involving me 5 years ago. No "fuck the cops" or "praise the cops" basically. I'd say fuck that detective and their evidence retrieving ways. My equipment and the computer in the living room that was also confiscated, had no evidence at all about the crime scene. Nothing, so what the fuck?
Everyday life, I'm in my house all the time. I'm in a part of the city where 9 times out of 10, I see a fellow Latino or a black person. I rarely see white people, it's become a humorous thing with me that I flip out in my head that I saw a white person. They just don't live around these parts. There are some white neighbors, but I hardly see them anyways. It's a small city, you get crime, underbelly sections, shady people, but that's in every town and city that has a busy population. Big cities get more attention, Baltimore, Chicago. Small cities get it too when something goes viral, but nothing here qualifies as viral. In some ways you can't classify all of America as this and that, because it's very diverse, and continues to be so. In other ways you can, but even so, can't go overboard with that. Such as that all cops are horrible, that's not true. Liberals are ruining the country? No. Conservatives are? No, how about both? I don't want to get political here, but I feel like people on all sides are fucking up the country, conversely people from many walks of life remind that there's still some good in it. It's that diverse, I feel like no middle ground can come of it, only that the country is just, I don't know, divided. In shambles if you only read the news and don't look outside your neighborhood or city if you live in the States as well. What I see? Normal everyday shit. Perhaps that's in the majority, but the media doesn't bother covering that, for obvious reasons (which are not really pleasant to me). I've heard recent podcasts from people overseas who give the country a visit and love it so much, so as a tourist place, America's highly recommended. To live there permanently? Give it a try, if you find the right place for you. Here, so many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, this is practically a haven for Latino Americans, specifically this central part of the city. So for them, I'd say come here and we'll enjoy a lot of local Dominican little food joints. There's even a cargo service here that delivers stuff from this general area to Dominican Republic only. In that respect, the transition from one of those countries to here, is seamless.
Anyways, rambled on too much. As for that nurse thing, really horrible what happened to her. I do wonder if it wasn't recorded, would it even get so much attention. Pros and cons to the fact that the current society is obsessed with recording everything and with that, cops getting bodycams. I was shocked mostly that this took place in Utah! What the hell? The act itself, horrible yes, but it can happen, cops pushing their weight against someone and being aggressive when resisted. That it happened in Utah blew my mind.