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In reply to the discussion: I'm a black doctor. My neighbors called the cops on me for listening to Biggie. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)The gun wasnt drawn. His hand wasnt even on the gun as is done if you expect to need it.
Her entire statement was that his hand was near the gun.
Near.
Guess what. Your holster is on your hip. When you stand up and you are not doing anything with your hand it naturally end up- by your hip.
Try it sometime, stand up and see where your hand goes. Near your hip! You racist pig cop with arms that end near your hip!
She literally made a big deal about the officers hand being at the end of his arm that ends up spending most of its time near his hip, where his holster is. Thats it.
Not a drawn gun. Not a hand on the gun. Not anything actually indicative of any bias or hostile intent at all, but literally just that his hand was at the end of his arm that happens to reach down near his hip like 100% of human arms do absent some deformities.
But because of how she presented the story, and perhaps your own internal biases, you lept from an officer who has arms and hands like everyone else to the officer arriving at the scene with guns drawn.
Maybe you should reflect on both why she chose to phrase that like she did, trying to make it seem ominous when literally he never touched the gun based on her own words- and also reflect on why you read a story where there were no guns even touched, much less drawn, and in your mind turned that into guns drawn.
Seriously- you read a story where the officer never touched his gun at all, was never reported as having made any moves to touch it, made any statements about using it, but only had his hand at the end of his arm where Mother Nature put it and you turned that into a cop responding to a call of loud music with guns drawn and then presented it to others online as a case of cops responding to a loud music call with guns drawn.
Perhaps you should examine your own internal biases here... because your kind of exaggeration and false claims of misconduct dont do anyone any good.