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In reply to the discussion: WHITE LADY IN BODY ARMOR AIMS 9MM AT COPS AFTER INSANE CAR CHASE, DOESN’T GET SHOT ONCE [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)12. Yes I am, very much so
Because this is Appalachia where I live, I have been pulled over by assholes in Coffee County who think everyone from my county is a methhead, because I was "driving a Sebring and only drug dealers up where you live have nice cars like that."
I know there is plenty of corruption and racism here, it's just that our nightly news is not covered up in stories about people being murdered in cold blood by cops.
Not that they aren't as racist as anywhere, but that there does not seem to be the level of violence here that other people are experiencing in the US.
Like I said, I could be blind to it and totally off base, but the last time I was approached by a cop here, I had a black friend in the car. The same cop had given my friend a ride to work the week before when my friend's car broke down (which was why I was driving him and then my junker started dying so we pulled over right in front of a parked cop on the highway.)
I had an attitude, honestly, but the cop was only trying to see if we needed help. He recognized my friend and we all had a good laugh about my buddy's interminable struggle to get to his factory job.
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WHITE LADY IN BODY ARMOR AIMS 9MM AT COPS AFTER INSANE CAR CHASE, DOESN’T GET SHOT ONCE [View all]
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
OP
No. What the police perceive to be a threat has much more to do with race than gender.
Chakab
Dec 2014
#38
were she black and firing at the officers, every media outlet in the country would be there
spanone
Dec 2014
#18
Yes, good thing, because a bullet from a 9mm killing machine will take more time to kill you than
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#21
Sadly, the history of the comment author would say no, it was to be taken as serious.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#36
One of the few cases where cops would be legitimately justified in using assault rifles
NickB79
Dec 2014
#22
But some say she was not a real threat because the gun was a 9mm, not a .45. What gets folks
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#23
I thought you had already chalked it up to the non threat of a puny 9mm in post 20?
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#46
Correlation fallacy? That is actually not a logical fallacy, that is just being illogical.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#57
I mentioned statistics. You chose to ignore what I said and make accusations.
NutmegYankee
Dec 2014
#48
And scold one strong black man for reposting racist crap here to forment discussion...
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#61
I agree, why would anyone expect 1SBM or any of us to shut up about it blows my mind...
bettyellen
Jan 2015
#75
Juanita Jean thinks that her Blonde Hair is magic and that there exists Blonde Privilege
Gothmog
Dec 2014
#44
No one is complaining, we are comparing. We will complain when a black man gets blown away in
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#58
Also on display here is the "high crime area" police mentality, even a legal mentality that there
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#59