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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read that yesterday! Holy crap it's crazy! Who would do that!? She's so lucky [b]she is white[/b].[/quote]
Fixed.[/quote]Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. A white middle class person gets the benefit of the doubt.[/quote]

Have you read the story? Both parties are white. One (the criminal) is much richer than the other. It has nothing to do with race.[/quote]

+1.

There's obviously some racist die-hards still around us[/quote]

I don't know. Both parties are white but do you really think that if this had happened at an inner city LA school and the PTA volunteer was black and poor that the cop would have been looking for reasons to exonerate? I think that is PP's point. The woman being an older frail white woman living in Irvine is the primary reason the cop thought twice about it.

And I'm a [b]white woman FWIW[/b]. [/quote]

You may not know, but white women can be crazy too. Like the one who committed the crime depicted in the article. Or, apparently, like you.

Read the article and you'll see that...
1) The initial suspect fully cooperated with the police
2) She had zero, as in zero, previous felonies or crimes
3) Nothing in her house, exhaustively searched, supported the drug possession
4) The drug find was in itself very unusual
5) There were obvious red flags with the 911 call
6) Everyone in the school, who had been working with her for years, testified on her behalf

I am sure that, in the same circumstances 1 to 6, anyone black and poor would have been treated the same way.

Please, Stop the Racist BS.

[/quote]

x 1000

PP who keep bringing up race and trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. It is just speculation.

If this had happened between two black families or even one black victim in wealthy Newport Beach, you don't think the police would have taken it seriously?[/quote]

Listen I posted one time without a remotely aggressive tone and the next pp calls me a crazy white woman and seems to imply I don't think white women can be crazy. Me thinks the ladies here doth protest too much.

The cops, the author and the DA all in the story made the exact same speculation that we're making. That Kelli was fortunate to be a white woman in an exceptionally safe low crime town; that, in and of itself, gave her credibility that a poor black woman in a rough neighborhood wouldn't be afforded. I'm not saying this case is about race, it isn't, but the way the case played out DOES provide an example of what white privilege means. As it is pointed out later in the story, the majority of officers, after ruling out Kelli Peters, at first couldn't believe that it was the wealthy white couple and instead thought it was the mentally challenged Asian man. [/quote]

We get it.  Stop derailing the thread.  [/quote]

NP. The thread isn't being detailed . The truth hurts doesn't it?[/quote]

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