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Except the police don’t actually have a license to kill. They are just particularly dangerous to black people. Even if your claims that US police are a trigger
by chrischen 6y ago
Except the police don’t actually have a license to kill. They are just particularly dangerous to black people. Even if your claims that US police are a trigger happy paramilitary force, they definitely do not affect non-black races as much. I mean yes any given white criminal may be subject to similar risks, but there’s profiling done on anonymous black people and just in general the rate of non-black criminality is lower so such problems will affect the average non-black person much less. And if you don’t fit into the profile of a criminal by a cop you’re pretty low in terms of chance of getting harassed.
Across suburbia stores closed early and police patrols were increased amid possible rioting. Imagine an SUV full of black men drives up to a suburban strip mall during last night in such circumstances and imagine one full of white teenage girls. If just due to the fact that a police goes by their gut On the job, they’re more likely to profile the SUV full of black people as potentially suspicious. Best case they just follow them and give them undue attention; worst case they harass them or more.
I get where you are coming from, but I also think the cause is worthy even if doesn’t affect one’s own race at any given time. I think it could happen to any race which is why it’s important to stop unequal treatment. I mean I’m sure other groups get profiled too such as Muslims (as terrorists) and that probably didn’t really start until 2001.