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Officer Bookman clearly saw the man as the aggressor, as many state laws and individuals assume in their daily worldview. ACAB

• dTal 2y ago
  Perhaps it is the case that in the overwhelming majority of cases that police respond to, the man is the aggressor. That does not make snap-discrimination right, but it may simply be an unreasonable thing to expect a career police officer not to pattern match, when they are forced to use their judgement in ambiguous circumstances every day. It may be tempting to hold every police officer personally responsible for their conduct, but that does not solve the systemic issue that if you put people in a position where they are constantly facing the worst of humanity, eventually they will begin to reflect it back.
  • LocalH 2y ago
    Exactly why the entire institution of policing needs top down reform. Fat chance of that happening in the modern era, however. ACAB because policing is broken. Fix the system, and cops will no longer be bastards. You can't fix a sufficiently broken system from the inside, no matter how hard you try.
• tartoran 2y ago
  > Officer Bookman clearly saw the man as the aggressor Just because he was a man or because he was a man and black at the same time? Black men must live in a constant fear of this happening to them. As a white person I also have this fear of police f__ing up but guess the likelihood of being shot by police innocently while being a black man is higher.