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Watch this video and tell me black people don't live in a police state in America. (Original Post) Solomon Jun 2020 OP
If the black guy in this video had gotten equal educational... brush Jun 2020 #1
I'm a black guy who did get those educational opportunities and became an Solomon Jun 2020 #2
He definitely would have made a great lawyer Jersey Devil Jun 2020 #3
I've often made this argument to great effect on behalf on my clients: Solomon Jun 2020 #4
K&R spanone Jun 2020 #5
I can't stop laughing HAB911 Jun 2020 #6
It was good wasn't it? Solomon Jun 2020 #7
Lets go post to FB. Lol. Cool dude. LizBeth Jun 2020 #8
He should have asked them to get the hell off his property Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #9
He did. Several times. The whole video is worth watching. Solomon Jun 2020 #11
Kick Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #10
In America, freedom is only for white people DSandra Jun 2020 #12
Fuck tha police DSandra Jun 2020 #13
We needn't go this far sir. The gentleman in the video posted was very respectful, Solomon Jun 2020 #14
Easy for you to say. And it's ma'am DSandra Jun 2020 #15

brush

(53,871 posts)
1. If the black guy in this video had gotten equal educational...
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:00 AM
Jun 2020

opportunities as others he'd be a brilliant attorney who would've made a name for himself. He did a great job in handling these two cops who were trying to run over him and get him a case in the unjust criminal justice system.

Solomon

(12,319 posts)
2. I'm a black guy who did get those educational opportunities and became an
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jun 2020

attorney. Same thing happened to me several times in my first year of Law school at Berkeley. Every time I took the trash out at the apartment I lived in or went down to the garage to drive my car, another resident would call the police about "a suspicious black guy". What I don't get is the cops would come to my door (clear indication that I lived there) question me and ask if they could search my apartment. Being a law student, of course I asked well, what is it you are investigating and told them no, not unless you have a warrant. One time it literally took showing them my law school ID to stop them from forcing their way in anyway.

I became a criminal defense attorney for 20 years after school before branching out into other areas of Law.

Yes the guy in this video made me proud.

Jersey Devil

(9,874 posts)
3. He definitely would have made a great lawyer
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:23 AM
Jun 2020

I am a lawyer and that was my first thought. If he had the opportunity to get a good education there is no doubt in my mind he would have been a top notch attorney.

Solomon

(12,319 posts)
4. I've often made this argument to great effect on behalf on my clients:
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jun 2020

"Another spin of the wheel, your honor, and I'd be sitting where he is, and he'd be standing where I am".

Solomon

(12,319 posts)
7. It was good wasn't it?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 01:11 PM
Jun 2020

And kudos to the cops for listening. I know how hard it is to tuck their egos away. They get so incensed when a black person refuses an order. That had to be hard for them.

Johnny2X2X

(19,114 posts)
9. He should have asked them to get the hell off his property
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 01:17 PM
Jun 2020

They don't have the right to stand on his grass.

DSandra

(999 posts)
12. In America, freedom is only for white people
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:05 PM
Jun 2020

Because the whites who have the freedom go and bully the other races, and make up a fantasy world that justifies it to themselves.

Solomon

(12,319 posts)
14. We needn't go this far sir. The gentleman in the video posted was very respectful,
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jun 2020

and thus far more effective.

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