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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is it so hard to arrest a white person for killing a black person?
Even when you have a damned video.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)It's a double whammy. The police stand by one another like no other cult. And it absolutely is a CULT.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Solomon
(12,319 posts)What the fuck!
It always smells like they're trying to find reasons not to charge a white perpetrator.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)America is a failed state.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)There is no other answer.
Sure, people who want to be closet racists and cop jock sniffers can torture themselves into some other contrived answer, but if you strip away the BS and deflection and special pleading, it all boils down to the same thing.
Institutional Racism.
malaise
(269,177 posts)Institutional racism
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)A gaggle of leading wypipo will pay lip-service and say the right things, promise fundamental changes and sternly point fingers.
Just like last time.
And the time before that.
And the time before that.
And the time before that.
We're going to do the precise same thing over and over again, expect different results and pretend it's relevant progress.
And in two more days, or three more weeks... we'll see another black man killed without cause at the hands of law enforcement. And the American wheel will have made another useless rotation.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)That covers just about any behavior no matter how awful.
JI7
(89,271 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)No clue.