I am trying to explain one of my winger relatives that this culture of someone running [View all]
as soon as they see a police officer/car does NOT mean they are guility. Yes, I am a white guy but I have lived in some depressed areas of cities I lived in. This view point of guility until proven innocent because they ran or in a certain area of town is just wrong. We need to stop with racial profiling we need to improve the economy in those areas.
I remember one time my wife and I where sitting on the porch speaking with the neighbors in the connected house. The gentleman was black and the girlfriend was biracial. We notice several cop cars go down on street a few minutes later they started going up and down our street and others around us. The black gentleman had left the porch to look down the street just to see what was going on. he was about to suggest especially my wife (who is very naïve) should go in when the cop car stopped in front of the connected house and started questioning our neighbor who was still basically on the property we share.
Why are you here? Where do you live?
My wife got pissed this was happening and called to the cop What's wrong? Why are you bothering my neighbor? He has been talking with us the whole time.
The cop kind of glared at my wife but got in the car and we didn't see a car go down are street again but the intersecting streets still had traffic for a half hour.
Anyways I got off subject and I am trying to prove to this winger relative that Freddie Gray was minding his own business and have been killed by the police.
I know the little boy in Ohio was just playing in like a park/court yard by his home when the police car just ran him over. But are there any other cases I can point too.
And just for my understanding--From what I heard Freddie Gray didn't have a record with police correct?
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