Black man righteously shames white cop who pulls him over

[M0rpheus]

212. Lack of tact - yes. Practically the minimum, I expect in my police interactions.

I know full well, the potential of police to escalate interactions with people of color. My point isn't to minimize the offense to your friend, or the actions that she took to resolve it.
My response to you was about "the right way" to respond to a situation.
I could posit that your coworker, (who you've painted as eminently respectable) went out of her way to be offended by average police behavior, and placed herself in a potentially dangerous situation, "challenging a bad cop with a serious attitude". Personally, I'd have just driven (moved my ass) off because, he wasn't worth my time.
Just because I may differ in my opinion in how it should have been handled does not mean your friend was wrong. However, putting her and civil rights protesters as the example Vs. the guy in the video feels a lot like respectability politics.

I was a black teenager in Chicago, in the 80s. I know exactly what was happening to POC then, as I do now.
I've been on the wrong side of a police weapon a time or two and, it's truly scary shit. I'm not necessarily proud of how I reacted afterwards, but that was long before social media allowed for instant transmission of situations like this to the whole world.
My opinions of police were solidified by those interactions. How I've dealt with them since, is the result.

Whether this guy's antics fall below the level of MLK approved(TM) is irrelevant.
People are tired of being treated like criminals... And this could be seen as part of that result.




"I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people." - Malcolm X