Police negotiate with drunk open carry white man who asked police to shoot him. No charges.

[Killeroctopus]

19. Perhaps it is that Kalamazoo cops are not as thuggish as other cops?

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/09/julie_mack_whites_blind_spot_a.html

In the video, Moore was quiet and polite. He handed over his driver's license and the officers as "sir." He had no police record. But he would not provide his cellphone number, questioning whether he was legally required to give that information. (In fact, he was not.)

Calling him "defiant," Moore was handcuffed, arrested and put in jail. The video captured a conversation between the two officers that made the reason for Moore's arrest more clear: The officers were looking for probable cause to search his car, and an arrest fit the bill.


After we reported on the ACLU study, I was talking with a white higher-up in Kalamazoo County's criminal justice system. He said the statistics should come as no surprise to anyone who spends time in Kalamazoo County courtrooms, where the number of black defendants outnumber whites, even though blacks are only 11 percent of the county population.


Not so much.