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Related: About this forumAnother cop execution. This time a white kid in MI
African-Americans have been telling the rest of us for years, "your next."
And here it is; a white middle class 17 year old killed in a bullshit traffic stop.
Something that African-Americans have endured for decades (I'd say centuries in a general sense, but I'm talking specifically about traffic stops).
https://www.facebook.com/FilmingCops/videos/898894913478938/?fref=nf
Stellar
(5,644 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)For years, black Americans told us we had a problem with cops. We mostly ignored them because, well, the cops were shooting them and not us. But now the situation is evolving. It's not cops against black people. It's cops against non-cops.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)"at least" because data is hard to come by, the police being in control of it and all . . .
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)*Edit to add - in the United States
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Some of local backwater police and sheriffs are absolute nazi stormtroopers. You have to be very careful on traffic stops. Most are useless hacks who know very little about actual laws. They are about shakedowns and quota filling. In the more progressive areas of MI, they are sometimes a bit better but you still have to be careful.
I am not at all surprised one of them murdered this kid, not one bit.