Charles M. Blow: "The Scenario I Have Always Dreaded - Yale Police Stopped My Son At Gunpoint"
Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been accosted by a campus police officer, at gunpoint!..........
This is the scenario I have always dreaded: my son at the wrong end of a gun barrel, face down on the concrete. I had always dreaded the moment that we would share stories about encounters with the police in which our lives hung in the balance, intergenerational stories of joining the inglorious “club.”
When that moment came, I was exceedingly happy I had talked to him about how to conduct himself if a situation like this ever occurred. Yet I was brewing with sadness and anger that he had to use that advice.
I am reminded of what I have always known, but what some would choose to deny: that there is no way to work your way out — earn your way out — of this sort of crisis. In these moments, what you’ve done matters less than how you look.
the rest:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/charles-m-blow-says-yale-police-held-son-gunpoint
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/charles-blow-at-yale-the-police-detained-my-son.html?smid=tw-share
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And yes, I know. I was being polite. Because we both know, we can be baited. 
It's disgusting. Just disgusting
- Remember? We're the dumb fucks who give guns to idiots and people with mental problems.
if the "description" was "white college age man wearing black jacket and red and white hat" and a big crowd of say, white fraternity members wearing those colors were roaming around campus, would the whole crowd been rounded up? 
I doubt it (havng gone to an almost all-white university and seen it first hand - even when these white roaming bands were doing massive damage to campus property).
Unfortunately the whole "fit the description" thing is a fiasco because without further details, black males are automatic targets where cops may claim that they ditched the clothing and other nonsensical excuses. It's easier for them to just round up any black male they see because there are no repercussions (unless their daddy works for the NYT).
Yale police never, ever behaved like that in my day (mid-'80s)! In fact, they would sometimes warn students of upcoming drug raids by the New Haven PD. 
on innocent white guys.
Innocent white people like this
