How was over-policing intertwined with the burning of black wall street?
I mean it did start with a black man being taken into police custody after being accused of a crime.
Maybe police just shouldn't take rape accusations seriously? /s
I mean the start of it might be violent crime but there are lots of little crimes that everyone does each day, speeding probably being the most common.
OK, so how does increased policing of speeding lead to an increase in the rates of things like robbery and murder, and why is it that mostly white small towns that are notorious as speed traps (and tend to have a police department that's excessive for the amount of crime that occurs because traffic violation fines are a significant source of city funding) don't generally suffer from heightened rates of murder and robbery? They're certainly over-policed by police specifically looking for those "little crimes that everyone does each day" in order to maximize the number of citations, and will definitely be fired for "lack of zeal" or similar if they aren't writing enough tickets.
Meanwhile, in the land of "drugs black people like", the "smell of marijuana" inside a personal vehicle is practically a license to kill for a cop.
I wish. My neighbors somehow managed to find the worst smelling pot in the state and smoke it openly on their porch, and we're downwind. My wife literally thought we had a skunk and was looking into traps before she realized it was the neighbors' weed. Black folks openly smoking on their porch apparently isn't enough to even draw a cop's attention (but they managed to ticket me the same night when my vehicle registration decal was removed by some jackass). And they're doing it on the porch because they don't want to stink up the apartment and possibly cause issues with their landlord, which they apparently consider a bigger risk than a cop seeing and smelling it from the street.
These are the same neighbors that my wife called the cops on a few weeks ago because there was a street fight in front of my house at 1AM and it woke her up. I sleep like the dead, but she has problems with insomnia so when something wakes her up once she finally gets to sleep she tends to be less than friendly about it.
No, that is not how Texas car inspections work. LOL They will not do the inspection AT ALL with it on.
1) I'm surprised he didn't know anyone he could ask for a ride if he had a problem.
2) I'm also surprised he didn't know a place that would quietly ignore the light for the inspection - back in college I had an almost decade old Geo Metro that wasn't in the best shape and I knew a place that was notoriously lax on their inspections that I went to for that reason. Nothing wrong with the car that would make it genuinely unsafe to drive, but there was a chip in the windshield and the check engine light was on for no diagnosable reason.
I took in my sisters, but my brothers were on their own.
I'm curious, why your sisters but not your brothers? You mentioned the one growing tobacco, but what of the others?
He's been kept in the station whilst they prepare the most exclupatory version of events they can get away with and have him rehearse it thoroughly.
That is precisely the job of police unions, to protect officers from any danger or harm to their careers as much as possible.
Welp. Ugh. I do find it interesting that with all the protests it seems the only guys that have killed anyone are boogs and cops.
I mean, "peaceful protesters" usually just loot and/or burn instead. And typically the buildings they burn are at most only lightly occupied at the time, which means the odds of of someone burning to death when it's set alight by peaceful protesters is pretty low, but not guaranteed. I used a pawn shop as an example because during the Minneapolis "peaceful protests" over George Floyd a pawn shop was burned down with someone inside, and Montez Terrill Lee (hint he's not a cop and has an awful lot of melanin to be a boog) had already been charged with the arson before the body was discovered, what with there being video of him pouring liquid out of a gas can in the shop and of him outside the shop watching it burn.
I'm just glad this shit isn't happening anywhere near me. We actually had a George Floyd related protest, but it was a few dozen protesters and about 6 counter protesters, and nobody looted or burned anything or shot anyone (and we have very lax gun laws so I'd be surprised if there weren't at least a few concealed carry at the protest). My wife actually wanted to go, but decided against it over COVID concerns.
but I'm sure they'll find a way to sell it as such...
They'll probably argue that when he reached into the car against their direction that they couldn't see his hands and worried that he was reaching for a weapon. Seems like the lowest effort way to make him a "threat."
USA
