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Akil Carter, an 18-year-old black man, was on his way home from church with his white grandmother in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, when the local police pulled them over. The next thing he knew, he says, guns were drawn and he was ordered out of the car.
"I was so terrified for my life because I don't know what's going to happen next," Carter told ABC News, recalling the October 2018 incident. "When he put me down on my knees I was even more scared."
Carter was handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car. When he was finally released, police simply said there was a misunderstanding. He was stopped, officers said, because they had received a tip that a black man had stolen a white woman's car.
"I just wanted to live," Carter said. "I feel like if I was white, it would have been completely different."
In the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers last month, questions about whether police officers treat black people differently than their white counterparts have taken on a new urgency.
An analysis of arrest data voluntarily reported to the FBI by thousands of city and county police departments around the country reveals that, in 800 jurisdictions, black people were arrested at a rate five times higher than white people in 2018, after accounting for the demographics of the cities and counties those police departments serve.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/abc-news-analysis-of-police-arrests-nationwide-reveals-stark-racial-disparity/ar-BB15kY3W?li=BBnb7Kz
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(81,515 posts)Demovictory9
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(32,457 posts)onetexan
(13,042 posts)To terrorize them. These thugs should have their badges & guns taken away & be prosecuted. Horrible!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to misusing the power of the state against people.
Cop-on-people crime rates are a lot higher than statistics for the especially targeted AA demo indicate. Most criminal cops will attack anyone when they feel like it and think they can get away with it.
Low-income and poor people are victims of bigotry by almost everyone, and of course bad cops. They make such good, helpless victims, and also righteously satisfying ones because they "deserve" it. Their neighborhoods are typically underpoliced; and just as the Catholic Church "hides," or hid, sexual predators by assigning them to ministries in poor communities, their neighborhoods tend to get the problem cops.