Reply #2: just read some of the comments

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do you black people know that other people are treated badly by the police too? :eyes:
um yeah...we know all about that. we also know about the history of police brutality that specifically targets black people.
i remember these three incidents when i live in southern california. of course there are many, many others, but these three i will never forget.

1979 Eula Mae Love
Eula Mae Love, a thirty-nine-year-old woman who stood about five feet four inches tall, was shot a dozen times by two LAPD officers who were called to the scene after she tried to stop a gas maintenance man from turning off her gas. When they arrived, she was armed with a kitchen knife, but the only thing she stabbed was a tree in her yard
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6812819

1981 Ronnie Settles
(We went to high school together)
was a California State University, Long Beach & Banning High School football player who was arrested by the Signal Hill Police Department in 1981. The morning after his arrest, he was found severely beaten and hanging in his jail cell. A huge furor erupted afterwards over the suspicious nature of his death. The police said he committed suicide, but this story was very weak. The Los Angeles District Attorney filed charges against them, with the Signal Hill Police officers eventually taking the fifth amendment to avoid incriminating themselves. No one was convicted of Settles' homicide, but the city of Signal Hill did pay a large settlement to the family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Settles

1998 Tyisha Miller
(My parents and sister lived in Riverside at the time)
...About an hour later, one of Miller's cousins and a friend arrived at the gas station and found Miller locked in her car, with her seat back, music playing on the radio and a .380 semiautomatic pistol in her lap. She didn't respond to knocks on her window. The cousin and friend thought Miller was foaming at the mouth. They called 911 and reported Tyisha was in distress, and that she had a gun. They then called her aunt's house to get keys to the car.

Because the 911 call reported that Miller had a gun, a police car as well as an ambulance was dispatched. The police arrived approximately two minutes later. They tried to rouse Miller by banging on the windows and eventually breaking them. At this point, police accounts diverge. Two of the officers say Miller reached for her pistol; two said they weren't sure whether she reached for it or not. The four officers -- all white -- fired about 27 shots, hitting Miller at least a dozen times. The Riverside police have not released tapes or transcripts of the 911 call or of the radio communication among the officers -- a fact that has been singled out by critics, who point out that they had no problem releasing the autopsy report showing that Miller was legally drunk.
http://archive.salon.com/news/1999/02/cov_08news2.html