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ellenrr

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17. 50 years ago I was a first year student at Rutgers and my entry
Sat May 2, 2015, 09:52 AM
May 2015

into police abuse was a paper I wrote about a pregnant Black woman (who happened to be Muslim) who was pushed down the stairs by cops, and lost her baby.

50 years!!
nothing has really changed.
Police abuse is seen as a "black" issue, most white people don't get too much into it except in huge horrendous cases like this.
It's not a Black issue. Black people suffer more from police abuse, but take away Black people , cops would be abusing young people, or gay people, or people who look different (which they do).

But take the Race issue and add the power/control/psycho issue of the police mentality and it becomes an ugly lethal combination.

I really have no idea how this will change.

and then you have tons of people on social media "shoot all of them", or defending the actions of the cops.

sigh....

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