LAPD arrest man without justification, oh, and he's Black

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7. They are treated like shit. Black people just get more of it than the other 87%.

Relative safety lies in appearing risky to try to victimize. Danger lies in making a bad cop think he can get away with abuse. Virtually all lower income people are very vulnerable, but that danger also reaches well into the middle classes regardless of race.

I remember a white teenager who was taken into an office and later dragged out naked and left sobbing on the hall floor outside the door, while the other officers around didn't see any of it (they said). The reason I remember that boy was it turned out that his parents were well to do, both attorneys, and apparently with at least adequate connections. BIG mistake. That's the last I found out about that; the whole thing was moved to wherever big mistakes are taken care of. I do know it never made the L.A. Times.