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In reply to the discussion: New Pool Party Video Emerges: Cop Grabbing 12-Year-Old By Her Neck & Slamming Her Against Cop Car [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)These kids are flesh and blood. The man was assaulting HER by that time. It's heartbreaking to listen to those screams on video.
She's 12 years old. Why doesn't anyone feel anything? 'Stop resisting us'? She wasn't moving, she was sitting down as told.
NOT resisting.
did he do to her eyes?

I'm going with white privilege again. Once on the Interstate I had my car set on cruise control and was changing lanes. An officer pulled me over. I was cool and thought, 'Okay,' and got out. Wasn't met by a SWAT team, either.
Mind you, this was years ago, and it was just the single guy. I got out to talk to him, and my Kid gets out. For some reason, Kid walks up to the cop, kicked him in the shins and jumped on his shoes, dumbfounding me.
Kid hollers, 'Leave my mom alone!'
I had to pull Kid off the cop! Imagine a black kid doing that?
But I don't have to imagine, because 20 years before in my mixed city neighborhood the police pulled over a black lady for one of those 'tail light stops.' Then they 'Called her out of her name.'
Her elementary school age boy got out and told them to stop cursing at his mother. This is natural, IMO. Well, long story short, both of them were cuffed and beaten up. I found this very offensive as she was a woman, a mother and her son was trying to stand up for her reputation.
That little boy hadn't laid a hand on the police and his mother had committed no crime worth what they did. To her. And to her child.
At that time, a number of black mothers explained to me the reality of 'growing up black' from their POV. Demonstrations happenedd over it and other abuses until a real civilian police review board was set up.
My privileged self was given a verbal warning about changing lanes to keep at cruise control speed limit. And my Kid?
Not a damn thing. I was afraid something would be done, because Kid 'assaulted' the cop and scuffed his shoes. Not one thing was said or done, the cop just stood there and took it.
I fussed at Kid when we got back in the car, but Kid was adamant. We continued home, where I nagged the Kid a lot more.
Privilege! Don't leave home without it!