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Hell, simply being of the wrong ethnicity was more than enough to dump a world of problems on your head in that time period. 120,000 people were sent to internm

Hell, simply being of the wrong ethnicity was more than enough to dump a world of problems on your head in that time period. 120,000 people were sent to internment camps for doing literally nothing, and we're wringing hands over a kid getting a house call from the FBI. Actually, wring hands at both things. The camps were atrocities, even if they didn't match quite the enemies' atrocities. But they were also doing this sort of thing to many different sorts of folks.

vkou 5y ago
On the scale of hand-wringing, this doesn't even register. Nothing bad happened to him. The police looked into it, decided this was probably not an issue, filed it, and moved on. No laws were broken. No procedures were violated. Nobody's fundamental human rights were curtailed. The procedures or laws in place weren't unfair or excessive. This isn't the Rosa Parks, or the Rodney King, or the George Floyd of police abuse. This isn't the springboard for broad, or even narrow reform. This is the system working. I understand that a tinkerer may feel offended by the fact that the police even looked into this in the middle of a world war[1], but if that's the poster child of your problems with the police, you are in a staggeringly privileged position, compared to on-going, actual problems, affecting millions of people every year (outside of the context of, well, a world war.) [1] That was in large part won by intelligence and counter-intelligence.