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In reply to the discussion: When Traffic Stops Go Bad -- How Cops Demean Black and Brown Men [View all]timesamillion
(31 posts)61. Yes, that was an interesting case
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836&page=1#.UOWx9WCe2H8
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Oh, yeah--what they needed at that traffic stop was a gun. That TOTALLY would
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#12
that's right, good job trying to turn a thread about racial profiling into something different
CreekDog
Jan 2013
#67
Never mind that it's the proliferation of guns that give pigs an excuse to act like this at any stop.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2013
#73
That's reserved for women, I think. Which brings to mind..why no outrage of how women are treated?nt
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#89
Same here. Also as a person growing up in a less enlightened era (huh?), here's what a co-worker
freshwest
Jan 2013
#101
No, that still leaves the problem of unaccountable cops who do indefensible things. n/t
D23MIURG23
Jan 2013
#30
...and if you do not comply with the state's requirements, you deserve to be harassed?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#68
From what this guy describes, he got a completely legal and professional traffic stop.
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#11
Me too. White female. Anyone pretending everyone gets treated the same is clueless.
Pirate Smile
Jan 2013
#26
as a white male my last pull-over - i was ordered out of my car, hands on the hood and searched
leftyohiolib
Jan 2013
#37
I'm a white female. I wanted to get out once, and they told me to stay in the car....
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#90
Well, you and I may disagree as to what is 'professional' in this circumstance....
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#19
Actually, the article suffers because the author has made it all about his event, instead of
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#41
No--his problem is that he doesn't expand his story to others to show a pattern of behavior that's
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#53
i was pulled over for what he said was speeding but i just left my house w/in 30 seconds and was
leftyohiolib
Jan 2013
#39
right, it's equal, because the police were once enslaved, targeted by Jim Crow...
CreekDog
Jan 2013
#23
prejudice against paid civil servants is every bit as bad as 400+ years of slavery, jim crow
noiretextatique
Jan 2013
#84
I explicitly said prejudice against police is not as bad as prejudice against the black community
timesamillion
Jan 2013
#86
Yes, it can happen to anyone and no one posting that they were white and/or female was saying it ...
LisaLynne
Jan 2013
#50
Damn! A federal judge? How long ago was this? Hope he sued the CRAP out of them
uponit7771
Jan 2013
#58
cept race should NOT be a factor at all, it's irritating at the least to be harrased by the police
uponit7771
Jan 2013
#60
K&R Same as it ever was. I suppose that the fact that this now gets some bit of notice is
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#70