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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She broke the law initially. She was wrong. She put herself in that situation.

There are some police officers that do have an attitude, but black or white, you be polite and comply and deal with the ticket/warning after the fact.

[b]She esclated the the interaction[/b]...no sympthay for her.  [/quote]

I do have sympathy for her, and it should not have ended this way. That said, in addition to police escalating the situation, she did her part in escalating it as well. It was a simple offence to which if she had politely complied, this would have ended very differently.[/quote]

We don't know that.  If you look at the "crimes" that have gotten Black men and women killed by police in this country in recent years, it isn't at all clear that complying with the police officer would have saved her life.

Tamir Rice (12) never had a chance to comply, he was shot dead for swinging on a swingset while holding a BB gun.

John Crawford also never got a chance to comply.  His "crime" was carrying a pellet gun through a Wal-Mart that he had picked up from the rack in that very store.

Rekia Boyd was never told to comply, and off-duty police officer opened fire on her and her friends.

Aiyana Stanley-Jones (7) never had a chance to comply, she was killed sleeping on her grandmother's couch during a raid on the wrong house.

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