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In reply to the discussion: Is Open Carry for whites only or would someone explain [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Notice how the officers in the two scenes had totally different uniforms.
That shows they were from two different departments.
Unless we know what the protocols and SOP's for each agency are on how to deal with people with guns, we can't say for sure if this is actually a racist response, or just differing agencies reacting as the department dictates.
Had they run the scenario with the same department both times, then they might have something if they got a different response. But they didn't. Why? Who knows. Maybe they were not smart enough to know that comparing the responses of two totally different agencies isn't a valid experiment. Maybe they knew just what they were doing to get the response they wanted by shifting jurisdictions. Maybe they had a lot more encounters and they cherry picked the two that proved the point they wanted to make.
But to anyone with any critical thinking skills claiming that different responses from two totally different police departments, in different jurisdictions, that have different procedures and SOP's proves racism is just a load of horseshit.