I am commenting news and its impact on my personal decision that I believe are representative for a large section of the Hacker News community.<p>I would like to be cherry-picking, but a large minority of friends who have lived in the US have similarly frightening story of abuse of power, or excessive force.<p>One thing that also makes me less likely to come to the US is to be physically confronted to people as curt, visibly aggressive and lacking self-criticism as you. I do believe that that prosecutor’s attitude and your response share something, visibly more common in the US: something that is often described as having a “cow-boy attitude”.