Take this article for example. A white lady comes and sees a bunch of predominantly black and latino folks with a tradition of hanging out in a park and screwi

Take this article for example. A white lady comes and sees a bunch of predominantly black and latino folks with a tradition of hanging out in a park and screwing around with their cars. And then says this: > “You can’t tell me drugs aren’t being distributed over there,” she huffed. “The brazenness of it all just kills me!” Yeah, it's a mystery why people are assuming there's some racism going on there. I have no idea what happened in Sacramento. But it's not hard to imagine how a group of non-white folks who tended to work on their cars -- either for fun, or for purely financial reasons -- would view this. And then you add in things like this [1] > As you might have picked up, the code has a bit of vagueness when defining "similar operations," something it briefly touches on in section 5.2.0.B of the Sacramento County Zoning Code. and > The code also prohibits individuals to perform repairs which use "tools not normally found in a residence"—another vague term which creates an elucidation of the law, placing it up for deliberation depending on the individual deciphering the legal code. Vagueness is a weapon that cops use to fuck people. And it's intentionally written into laws for exactly that reason. If the last year didn't convince you that cops harass especially black folks at extremely high rates, nothing will. A report on Jalopnik [2] said that someone who got a $400 fine would have had to pay $700 to right the decision. Again, look at the correlation between ethnicity and having a spare $700. [1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/29205/repairing-your-car-in-your-own-garage-is-considered-illegal-in-sacramento-california https://www.thedrive.com/news/29205/repairing-your-car-in-yo... [2] https://jalopnik.com/sacramento-county-says-its-illegal-to-work-on-your-own-1836085130 https://jalopnik.com/sacramento-county-says-its-illegal-to-w...