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In reply to the discussion: If you are white, did your parents give you "the talk" about how to behave around police? [View all]tblue37
(66,127 posts)member of a marginalized subgroup whom the cops would feel safe in assaulting or killing. Though he is the son of professors, during some of his teen years he wore a 7" mohawk and two 1.5" trihawks, along with the standard punk rock uniform. I warned him that cops would assume from the way he looked that they could brutalize him without consequence, because they were not likely to comprehend that a teen with comfortably middleclass parents would be dressed counterculturally.
Cops assault those they think will have no recourse--i.e., those who look as though they belong to oppressed and marginalized groups. They lack the imagination to consider that the punk looking kid might have parents who would have the ability to come after the cops if their son is abused by them.
Black boys and men get it worse, but anyone who looks as though he might belong to a group cops feel safe attacking is at risk.
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