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Originally Posted by secretsquirrel
And had you freaked out and yelled "What are you doing? Don't shoot me!", and scared the cop, he might have shot you. Then the narrative from many here would be what you did to to deserve it.
The fact of the matter is that you probably didn't deserve to be stopped in the first place. And many don't understand that is natural for minorities who have been stopped for bs to be a little "akward", which puts the cop on higher alert.
A good book for everyone here to read is a book called "blink". The part about what the cops thought of Amadou Diallo (who was shot 41 times for doing nothing wrong) speaks to heart of the issue. The cops thought Diallo was a "super criminal" because of the fact that he didn't go inside his apt when they drove by. But later they found out that he didn't go inside because he wasn't doing anything wrong and didn't know the "neighboorhood protocol expected by the cops".
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Don't use that logic here.