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In reply to the discussion: White man with AR-15 O.K. - Black guy, well..... [View all]DFW
(59,713 posts)I'd say that guy risked his life just to prove a point (although prove it, he most certainly did).
One fine day, instead of two people doing this, there will be a group of ten black guys with assault weapons waiting around the corner to draw upon the cop who drew his weapon with no more cause than his fellow cop had with the white guys carrying (which, as shown in the film, was zero).
I'm waiting to see what one lone cop will do when suddenly confronted with ten armed citizens sticking up for the Second Amendment rights of their fellow citizen, telling the cop with the drawn gun to stand down immediately or they will fire in self-defense. Will he holster his weapon and rethink the legality of his action, or will he risk a firefight which he must realize he will surely lose? I guess that would depend on his steroid dosage before coming on duty.
At the very least, this film demonstrates that cops react very differently depending on the race of the person with a weapon. It demonstrates beyond any doubt how a man legally and openly carrying a weapon under the law of his state can be threatened with immediate lethal force by the police with the only determining factor being the race of the man exercising his rights under the laws those cops supposedly swore an oath to uphold.