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When do we stop using color when color isn't a factor? I'm not black and I have encountered rude officers on occasion. I think part of the problem is we are shown incidents where the person is of color but we aren't shown the incidents when they aren't. That alone changes the perception.

Now...rather than people assuming it was a matter of color how about we defer judgement until it is proven otherwise? [/quote]

It is a fact that that the police are far more likely to stop black people than white people for investigatory stops -- minor violations (like failure to use a turn signal) that police use as a pretext to investigate the driver.

It is also a fact that the police are far more likely to arrest black people for "contempt of cop" than white people.

Does that mean that, in this particular case, the police officer stopped and arrested Sandra Bland because she was black? No. But it's a reasonable assumption. The alternative is to say, "It looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, but let's defer judgment until it's proven that it's a duck."[/quote]

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