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Personally I find the racist overtones to be the least scary aspect of this story. I grew up in rural Texas; for police/government officials to conduct their wo
by Doches 13y ago
Personally I find the racist overtones to be the least scary aspect of this story. I grew up in rural Texas; for police/government officials to conduct their work with a base level of racism is, while frustrating and sickening, pretty much to be expected. Kafka-esque detention, authoritarian abuse of power, and the hinted-at FBI search of the OP's apartment scare me a lot more.
Hell, casual racism is basically an (awful) American tradition. Unreasonable search and seizure most emphatically isn't.
- moocowduckquack 13y ago"Unreasonable search and seizure most emphatically isn't." Anyone who has been investigated for a DWB might disagree. Casual racism and unreasonable search and seizure have been pretty consistently tied together as a common standard in policing, not just in the U.S, but across the world. There is something in the way that police organisations operate that makes them particularly susceptible to treating racist stereotypes as probable cause.