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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
100%, but that interaction represents maybe .001% of police interactions. My point in sharing that was simply to illustrate the sorts of things that happen. The fact that he was on heightened alert doesn't even mean that *he* is racist, for that matter. Given where he lives, dude probably goes for weeks at a time without seeing a black person where he doesn't need to be on heightened alert. That's the tough reality there.
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Note that I am not calling this officer a racist. Only that race played a large role in his decision making in that particular situation.
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