St. Louis teen "was wearing an ankle bracelet at the time he died

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130. Police chose to ignore that they are profiling black people and treat them differently.

I don't care what that cop knew. Cops need to stop looking for reasons to harass black people, now. Was that person in the act of committing a crime? If not, leave that person alone!!! No, random stop and frisks. No chasing kids, just because they ran when they saw a cop. Stop using the drug war as an excuse to make contact with black people. Stop shooting us. Stop killing us. We are tired of cops killing our kids and using any excuse in the book to excuse them even bothering our kids at all.

When you have cops chocking a man to death for selling loosies, shooting kids in Walmart holing air rifles, shooting deaf kids for not understanding commands, shooting shoplifters, raping women, manufacturing evidence, profiling and stop and frisking, then I have a problem believing ANYTHING they say.

Police are KNOWN to us too, we KNOW to run when we see police. If that police had simply waited and went over to the KNOWN kids home later, I mean since he knew him SO WELL, he could have spoken with him them.

Cops are getting more and more trigger happy. And that's a problem. And they are making the nation more dangerous by behaving in that manner. Citizens have guns too, I hope they don't force the Good Citizens of Missouri to feel in fear for their lives from Law Enforcement. It's easy to find yourself outnumbered and out gunned even if you are used to being in a position of power.

Power corrupts, and police have absolute power these days. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.