The heavy, massive police station wagon drifts across the elegant park, crashes over a bump, loses a piece of the disguise and has almost reached the perpetrator. The video recordings of a police hunt on a 17-year-old in the middle-class Hamburg suburb of the Elbe is a symbolic return of a republic that has drifted into authoritarianism. The boy wanted to say goodbye to his friends with a hug. How could such nonsense come about? Whoever allows fear and panic or even stirs up, lowers the inhibition thresholds for actionism and drives a free society into psychotic overreactions.