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>I wonder if the police officer would have had the unconstitutional request if Wingate was not black. The article didn't mention his race and I don't think it'
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>I wonder if the police officer would have had the unconstitutional request if Wingate was not black.
The article didn't mention his race and I don't think it's relevant here. This is a part of the country where the cops do this to everyone because they're used to getting away with it.
I read the whole article thinking "this sounds like a typical northeast Virginia jack-booted cop that's used to trampling on people's rights".
- EricE 6y agolol - it's not just limited to Virginia; I've found cops in most urban areas to be far more likely to display these sorts of tendencies than more rural areas.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThe more cops there are in the workplace the more they dominate each other's social circles and the more removed they become from the communities they're policing.
- dragonwriter 6y agoThis is among the reasons I think, at least for urban areas, breaking up centralized local law enforcement agencies and distributing law enforcement functions to smaller LE units embedded within other relevant agencies would be a sensible abuse-mitigating reform.