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This is from over a year ago - but the more things change, the more they stay the same
COPS COMPLAIN ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE WASTING POLICE TIME CALLING 911 WITH IRRATIONAL FEARS OF BLACK PEOPLE
http://afropunk.com/2017/05/cops-complain-about-white-people-wasting-police-time-calling-911-with-irrational-fears-of-black-people/
We know the way that Blackness is inherently seen as a threat makes even living while Black a dangerous activity, but what does the irrational and deadly fear of Black people actually sound like when communicated in words? On a Reddit law enforcement forum called ProtectAndServe, a verified police officer going by the name sf7was started an insightful thread called People, please stop making my job so difficult highlighting just that. Officers flocked to the thread to vent about white people panicking at the mere sight of people of color and calling the police.
Sf7was gave this example: So Im working last week and get dispatched to a call of Suspicious Activity. Yall wanna know what the suspicious activity was? Someone walking around in the dark with a flashlight and crow bar? Nope. Someone walking into a bank with a full face mask on? Nope. It was two black males who were jump starting a car at 930 in the morning. That was it. Nothing else. Someone called it in. People. People. People. If youre going to be a racist, stereotypical jerk
keep it to yourself.
Other examples given by former and currently serving officers included a Black person fishing in a community pond and someone from the Middle East looking mean.
Tellingly, the thread was centered around the problem of making [police officers] jobs so difficult, not the problem of how white fear is often a death sentence for Black people. Even when self-aware of its own irrationality, whiteness still finds a way to center itself at the expense of Black life.