> This isn't a hypothetical, it is how the law is actually used.

You make it sound like it happens all the time and everyone is used to it. I know of once case (Pimmel-Andy), and that led to a shitstorm, including part of the police operation being declared unlawful after the fact.

https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/landgericht-hamburg-a...