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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
I'm not asking for them to treat white people worse, I'm asking they treat everybody the same.
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Okay, but you seemed to take issue with how the police handled this situation with your first post with the tweet. Perhaps I misunderstood. This is how they should have handled it had the McMichaels been Black or green.
Now there's obviously going to be a lot of implicit racial bias had the races been reversed. Of course the McMichaels were just straight up racist white hillbillies. Their Black counterparts probably aren't noticing a white jogger at all. And maybe if the elder was Black he wouldn't have climbed far enough to be friends with the District Attorney or bothered to become an officer at all. And if he was just a random Black person, he may have avoided calling the police at all because he knows #### can go south real quick for him even if he was completely right. I get all that. And of course maybe the officers immediately escalate and arrest them because of explicit or implicit racism. Again, pretty reasonable, but all I'm saying is how they handled this is how they should have handled it (with maybe the exception of the actual first officer) and therefore we shouldn't need to vilify them.
As for Black people calling 911, I'm totally with you on how ####ty they can get treated:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...ficer-71147000
(Black store owner calls to report robbery, gets punched and arrested)
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...ry-at-his-home
(Black man calls 911 to report carjacker, immediately shot)
https://www.wbtv.com/2019/10/18/man-...eputy-awarded/
(Black man calls 911 to report home intruder, immediately shot)
https://newsone.com/4249847/florida-...g-his-own-car/
(Black man calls 911 to report car stolen, arrested for stealing his own car)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriff...tock-virginia/
(Black pastor calls 911 to report violent racists, is arrested)
https://newschannel9.com/news/local/...ng-teens-crash
(Black man calls 911 to report dangerous 14 year old white driver, is arrested)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...round-n1001781
(Black woman calls police after white man points gun at her, gets violently arrested for being upset that man pointed gun at her)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...store-looters/
(Black woman flags down police as looters attempt to rob store, her and the store owners handcuffed)
And then if we wanted to look at 911 calls done by others because of "suspected" crimes like a Black man working on his own car, or a Black kid living with his white family, or a Black babysitter.. or Black realtor showing his client a house.or..or..or.. we would crash this board.
But given that the McMichael's had called 911, were cooperating, not trying to flee and posed no danger, the police handled it reasonably it appears. And again in handling it how they did they got convictions despite all the other corruption above them.
Also looks like a Black guy shot a would-be-white robber in Houston in September and experienced a similar experience to the McMichaels. Hard to make out races though. He was questioned, no charges, police came out in support. It's hard to really know how often a Black person justifiably shoots in self-defense (depending on castle-doctrine, stand-your-ground laws) as often times they are unnamed, undescribed victims.