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Old 02-25-2009, 11:40 PM   #46
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My guess is she refused to provide a name or ID "because I wasn't doing anything wrong"; in her view, she was being harassed for no reason and thus the story gets amplified and distorted to bring the listener onto her side. She isn't exactly lying, she is just omitting the details that make her story make sense in the mistaken view that it makes her case stronger.

There are almost undoubtedly cops and transit cops who harbour racial prejudice in this city; however it seems beyond the bounds of plausibility that she would be singled out for harassment twice by different officers solely due to such prejudice. Some of the prejudice in this case is clearly HERS - if she's looking for a racist, maybe she should look in the mirror as she is clearly assuming she knows the motivations behind the actions of these officers simply because they don't share her skin colour.
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