<p><pre><code>    I saw the woman in red.
    “Thank you,” I said to her.  “Thank you for staying.”

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if you see the police talking to someone: whoever they are, however they are acting, and whatever they look like; and you have a minute to spare, please.. please, stick around and make it known you are watching<p>if you have a phone, record it, or just hold your phone as if you were recording it<p>people can feel the gaze of others and you will alter the behaviour of the officers for the better<p>just yesterday i was walking by an irate homeless person yelling at three officers, refusing to move<p>two officers were directing foot traffic to keep a distance and the third was prodding the homeless man with his toe asking him identifying questions and telling him he needed to get up and move<p>by my just standing there i could sense the officers sensing my presence, every so often they were send me a quick sideways glance<p>the officer using his foot to interact with the homeless man turned his head to see what his fellow officers kept looking at and saw me, standing there drinking a coffee, staring at him<p>he jerked his gaze back at the man lying on the ground and knelt down and just placed his hand on the homeless man&#x27;s shoulder and talked to him calmly<p>the officer managed to get the man to sit up and answer his questions, eventually he got up and walked away and the officers gave me a look like, &#x27;you happy?!&#x27; and got in their cars and drove off<p>i was happy with how the interaction turned out, the whole thing lasted less than a minute<p>i would like to think that my presence had little to do with it