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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I saw arrest a 10yo - my first instinct was that the child is black and the counselor is white.  That’s what happens to black boys and would never happen to a white boy.  
And yep, confirmed.  
How sad.  Black boys (and girls) are treated like adults from a very young age.  
Such an overreaction.   [/quote]

I had the same demographic thoughts in my head as I read the article too. And I wonder about the boy’s size. Sometimes taller/larger black children are not held to the same standards as other children v because their size. For instance the teenager who fell off the ride at the Orlando theme park (my heart still sinks thinking about how awful that was). I remember seeing comments in news articles about how he should have known he was too big for the ride, when in actuality he was a minor with a childlike trust in authority. So I could totally see a mature-appearing black boy not being given the same benefit of the doubt as a scrawny white 10 year old boy. Puberty can lead to many physical variations right around that age.

It sounds like his family is pretty fired up about it, so I imagine more info. will come out.[/quote]

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