Police Manage Not To Shoot Man Who Wears Rucksack and Suspicious Coat, Shock!

Europhobia highlights this - man arrested for "suspicious behaviour and public nuisance." He was wearing a coat, had a rucksack, did not look at policemen as he passed them by, and messed with his mobile phone waiting for his train. Well, at least they didn't bundle him to the floor and shoot him point blank in the head.

Although he did have his fingerprints taken, was swabbed for his DNA, had his flat searched, and was held in a cell overnight. And...

"Under current laws the police are not only entitled to keep my fingerprints and DNA samples, but according to my solicitor, they are also entitled to hold on to what they gather during their investigation: notepads of arresting officers, photographs, interviewing tapes and any other documents they entered in the police national computer (PNC). So even though the police consider me innocent there will remain some mention (what exactly?) in the PNC and, if they fully share their information with Interpol, in other police databases around the world as well. Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state?"

Don't like it.

Don't want to live in a police state anymore than I want to live under a Caliphate.