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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve seen little 45lb black kindergarteners in Florida carted off in handcuffs for lesser dysregulation than this large adult woman displayed.

If this had been a black woman or a black man behaving this way in a store she would have been cuffed and thrown into a wagon and escorted to central lock up, charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, unlawful detainer, trespassing, making terroristic threats, and assault, mental illness be damned and no questions asked.

There but for the Grace of God though… the pandemic was hard on people, even now so many folks are teetering on the edge and walking around one sandwich short of a picnic.  
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You are right that black people with disabilities are treated much worse than white people with disabilities.

However, that does not mean we should equalize treatment by mistreating white people with disabilities. It means we need to address how systemic racism disproportionally harms black people with disabilities.

This woman still deserves empathy, just as a black person in the same situation deserves empathy. It's clear that someone behaving in this way needs help, and not to just be thrown in jail or cuffed.

I will also note here that if a black person with an a mental disability or serious mental illnesses had a similar breakdown over being filmed by a white woman, we'd all be calling the white woman a Karen for harassing a vulnerable black person.

Everything is very broken right now. We keep trying to fix the wrong problems.[/quote]

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