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In reply to the discussion: Disturbing Video Shows a Cop Brutally Beat a Child for Riding Her Bike, Charges HER with Assault [View all]Ilsa
(61,675 posts)28. "...by the ancestors of those cops ..."
You don't know that, do you? He may be first generation-US-born. He may be a grandson of Hitler Youth. But you don't know if his ancestors brought Africans to be slaves in the US. I know many white people whose parents were 20th century immigrants.
But I certainly get your point about his membership in the white brotherhood as a factor in treating probable descendants of slaves heinously. And those attitudes may not have originated here.
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Disturbing Video Shows a Cop Brutally Beat a Child for Riding Her Bike, Charges HER with Assault [View all]
KamaAina
May 2016
OP
I'm an immigrant here. No one in my family tree had slave trade dealings.
Boudica the Lyoness
May 2016
#34
4 police cars, physical assault, beating a young girl of color on her bicycle...
MrMickeysMom
May 2016
#19
Off duty Tacoma WA cop working as a mall cop makes it somehow even more outrageous
Person 2713
May 2016
#35