And now we see the truth as plain as day: police are nothing but better-funded gangsters.

MEXICO CITY – In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents in one of Mexico’s biggest cities — a stark display of the tensions caused by a crackdown on drug corruption among the country’s lawmen.

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“The federal officers told motorists to get out of their cars because they were afraid the city police were going to open fire,” said a state police spokeswoman, who was not authorized to give her name in line with department policy.