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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've actually got no particular opinion of his his credibility at all.  I assume he's just a normal person who lies just as much, or as little, as the rest of us.  But his credibility is irrelevant here.  I never heard him say, "gosh officer, you must have the wrong guy, because I didn't swing a club at your car!"  Instead, he just refused to put down the golf club and complained that it's his.  And I don't particularly believe the police officer either, since you may recall I noted the possibility she might be making the whole thing up.  I just figure the truth is better sorted out when everyone's calm, and not when one guy is refusing to put down his golf club.  Don't you agree?

I'm pretty frustrated though that you'd make all sorts of (inaccurate) assumptions about me and my beliefs -- flirting with calling me a shallow-minded bigot -- based simply on the fact that I don't interpret this situation as an example of racial profiling, despite the complete absence of any evidence for that position.[/quote]

[i]The officer tells Wingate that he’s being recorded, and she goes on to say: “You just swung that golf club at me.”

“I did not,” responds Wingate, who is seen holding a plastic bag in one hand, with the golf club still pointed to the ground.[/i]

Perhaps you overlooked it but there is your example of the elderly black man asserting his innocence and the officer's mistake in judgement.  Granted he didn't state it verbatim as you would have preferred but who among us could be expected to express ourselves calmly and collectively when abruptly confronted by the police and accosted with an outlandish accusation?

The only inaccuracy here is your assumption that I called you a shallow-minded bigot.  I dismissed those conclusions and suggested instead that you may have a predilection for holding preference for police testimony which is nothing to be frustrated about because we all hold the word of those in authority higher than the average Joe.  Yet and still, as I explained a gun and a badge do not make an honest man nor do a golf club and black skin make a liar.

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