Depictions of diplomatic immunity

I was watching a show that's supposedly based in New York City, where they portrayed a consular official and his family members as having full diplomatic immunity. Drives me crazy since that's not really a thing unless there's some sort of agreement with the country for the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. I guess it all goes back to Lethal Weapon 2, where they portrayed the consular officials at the South African Consulate-General in Los Angeles as misusing their diplomatic immunity...

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