The police shooting 13 y/o kids without bothering to discern a toy from a real gun

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29. Yeah, the fact that I'd lived in this country for over 50 years

If we're not kidding ourselves we all know walking while black or brown, driving while black or brown, even just being a black or brown male — even a 13-year-old — in this country many times draws not so pleasant attention from some police officers and wannabes, be it from under training or stop-and-frisk laws.

Let's not kid ourselves that it doesn't exist. I wouldn't call that "conjecture" at all.

Want facts? How about the 4 very recent deaths from it lately:

Travon Martin gunned down by cop wannabe zimmerman; the black guy who had the car accident in the middle of the night and was looking to help — gunned down by police; the 19-year-old black woman who had car trouble at night and looked for help at a home — just gunned down with a shotgun blast to the face; now this Latino-American teenager gunned down by a cop who didn't bother to ascertain whether the toy the kid was holding was real or not. He just emptied his gun into the kid.

I repeat, not conjecture, facts.