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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)If you read the story the officers gun was not drawn. His hand wasnt even on the gun. She stated his hand was near his gun as if that was a threat, but everybodies hands are at the end of their arms and when you stand your arms fall naturally by your hip- where a holster is worn.
So all that was actually presented in the article is that his hand was by his side. Literally.
And from that multiple people in this thread have accused the cop of coming in with his gun drawn. Not threatening to use a gun, not hand in his gun, but accusing him of responding with the gun actually drawn.
Wow.
That says a lot, both about how she attempted to spin it as more than it was by making a big deal about his hand being near his gun (was he supposed to hold it behind his back or something) and about some the the deep biases here that people can in their minds not just take from this story that he had his gun drawn but then type it out and post online that he had his gun drawn.