Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: dparm
At the risk of coming off like a [censored], why is this person's race relevant to the story? (hint: it isn't)
I agree that it is a tragedy and should never have happened.
Exactly. Well said.
Originally Posted By: SteveSRt8
When we quit doing these kinds of things (using race in the title of this thread) maybe racism will die out a bit. But as long as folks keep drumming up stories for maximum racial impact and political points it will only inflame tensions.
Folks forget the police have a better than 99% successful interaction with the citizenry.
Originally Posted By: MolaKule
Maybe people who play the race card think they can get an extra measure of sympathy and special treatment.
And it's all about divide and conquer; political power and control.
Remember Ferguson, Missouri ?
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As black families moved into Ferguson, the whites fled. In 1980, the town was 85 percent white and 14 percent black; by 2010, it was 29 percent white and
69 percent black.
The disparity is most evident in the Ferguson Police Department, of which only three of 53 officers are black. The largely white force stops black residents far out of proportion to their population, according to statistics kept by the state attorney general.
Blacks account for 86 percent of the traffic stops in the city, and 93 percent of the arrests after those stops. Similar problems exist around St. Louis County, where earlier this year the state chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging widespread racial profiling by police departments.