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That doesn't work, either. The Slave Patrols aren't so easily fooled.
I have a great idea!
They could be WHITE! That would solve the problem!
Yeah, Whiteness solves all social problems!
(and people kinda wonder why Black folks don't vote for Republicans)
There was no reason given for dropping the charges. It was more likely prosecutorial discretion than an indication that he did nothing wrong since he obviously DID do something wrong.Correction: those charges were dropped against the innocent black man because he did nothing wrong and several whites voluntarily came forward to say they also use that open space without being hassled by white cops. I live nearby and know this for a fact.
Do you?
I lived for 3 years in a poor neighborhood with pretty high rates of property crime and drug and prostitution activity. Walked around in jeans and a hoodie whenever the weather was cool. Never stopped and hassled by a cop. But then I'm a white guy.
Oh my goodness! Are you also saying it is okay to rape a woman because of the way she dresses? Sure sounds like it.
I lived for 3 years in a poor neighborhood with pretty high rates of property crime and drug and prostitution activity. Walked around in jeans and a hoodie whenever the weather was cool. Never stopped and hassled by a cop. But then I'm a white guy.
I think the fitting also plays into it. Hipster jeans and hooded sweatshirt is different from gangster jeans and hooded sweatshirt.
Is it racist to point out that black people are more likely to commit crimes than white people?
Depends on what your motives behind it are.
There was no reason given for dropping the charges. It was more likely prosecutorial discretion than an indication that he did nothing wrong since he obviously DID do something wrong.
To get people to call me a racist.
There was no reason given for dropping the charges. It was more likely prosecutorial discretion than an indication that he did nothing wrong since he obviously DID do something wrong.
We don't know what it reflects because no reason was givenOf course it was prosecutorial discretion. But that doesn't prove your point. Prosecutorial discretion here reflects the lack of evidence for an offense--especially the offenses alleged by SPPD.
We don't know what it reflects because no reason was given
Thank you. It wasn't lack of evidence of an offense, as you claimed, but rather lack of enough evidence to persuade a juryWrong again!
Our job as prosecutors is to determine whether those elements of a crime are present to prove to a jury, and we just didnt have that here.
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Thank you. It wasn't lack of evidence of an offense, as you claimed, but rather lack of enough evidence to persuade a jury
I used to wear hoodies and jeans all the time, the cops only ever stopped me once, because of vandalism in the area (which ironically turned out to be one of my friends).
Your anecdotal interaction with the police does not mean much. No one is arguing that the police only stop African Americans. However, regardless of your personal experience, the statistics show the African Americans are stopped by the police more. Take Ferguson for example, more African Americans are stopped, but the white people they stop have a higher rate of possessing contraband. So you could be stopped by the police, but there are more African Americans getting stopped than you for nothing. If there was no racism, this rate would be the same as it is for other ethnic groups.I got stopped by the police at about 4 o'clock in the morning during my student days. They wanted to know who I was, where I'd been, where I was going etc. It must have been because I'm black.
Except I'm white. Perhaps it was because a few crimes had been committed and walking around at stupid-o-clock was sufficiently unusual for them to check me out.
Part of our exchange was quite funny, when I said I was a student they asked if I was in a rush to get back home. I said I had a 9 o'clock lecture but given it was already 4 o'clock a few more minutes to talk to them wasn't going to make any difference.
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