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Sure it's not great but you have to understand that police in the US like to shoot people. Though they generally are happy to shoot anyone, there is a higher in
by goldenkey 5y ago
Sure it's not great but you have to understand that police in the US like to shoot people. Though they generally are happy to shoot anyone, there is a higher incidence of incidents with black colored folks, so they are necessarily more afraid of cops.
I am white but was almost killed by the LAPD in 2011 so anecdotally I can tell you, the evil cops don't really focus on color - it's more about power.
- inglor_cz 5y agoBeing afraid of SWATting is absolutely realistic, yes.
- fleshdaddy 5y agoIn principle I kind of see what you’re saying but I mean if the cops chose to talk to him I’m sure they’d have the context of “this is a Stanford professor calling the cops on a Berkeley professor about a tweet.” And like you said it is more about power and at least from my perspective elite university professor falls under that. I could definitely be overestimating that though. My point is given the situation the chances of something like that happening is probably quite a bit lower than with any interaction with the police regardless of race.