American cops use intimidation tactics all the damn time. It's just that, when they do it, it almost always results in an arrest, and often a death. Also, they

American cops use intimidation tactics all the damn time. It's just that, when they do it, it almost always results in an arrest, and often a death. Also, they intimidate entire communities at a time, seldom bothering with this one-at-a-time stuff. [1] And let's be clear, we're talking about the US here, not the entire fucking West - brutal American LEO tactics are most decidedly not par for the course in the West.