JSt0rm
Lifer
- Sep 5, 2000
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I understand that black people often resent the police. That is a fairly complex chicken-and-egg situation, since while it is objectively true that black people are more often targeted by police, they are also far more likely to commit serious crimes, particularly violent ones, than any other ethnic group (in fairness, men, not women, are overwhelmingly the culprits). For this reason I think your use of the word "prey" to describe the police's behavior is inapposite. In any case, these facts do nothing to change my view that it's important as a matter of personal safety to treat police with a modicum of respect. It is in fact probably more important for black people to do so, since they are (often unfairly) more likely to have interactions with the police than white people.
I do not like the way this officer handled the situation, but that doesn't mean he bears 100% of the blame here. Bland was looking for a fight and she got one.
It would be faster for us as a society to change the police behavior to better align with peoples rights then to try and change a bunch of people who aren't on the government payroll. This cop said she kicked him. He falsely gave her a felony charge because she had attitude and was uppity? Black lives dont matter.
Maybe all black people need to refuse every order by a cop. Can you imagine how fast shit would change if 20% of the population said no to the unjust stops? Can you imagine if the juries in this country began to nullify laws aimed at keeping black people down? On a long enough timeline that will happen. Because more and more people are waking up to the injustice perpetrated on a race of people by law enforcement.