Police deliberately did not search preventively at Summer Carnival: could evoke a feeling of discrimination
The police deliberately did not perform a preventive search during the Summer Carnival, which was marred by two shootings on the busy Coolsingel. The reason? The police could not guarantee that visitors would actually be searched regardless of skin colour, gender or other characteristics, the explanation said.
I'm reminded of the World Cup in South Africa. They had to suspend the South African constitution around the stadiums during the event with a special government dispensation.
Why? Because searches and seizures were abused by the Aparthied regime to shake down the darkiest to beat them to a bloody pulp and keep them in line whenever they wanted. So when they remade the constitution, they made such searches and seizures illegal because of their systemic abuse.
And FIFA needed to guarantee that nobody was entering the stadiums with longswords, maces, and Uzis.