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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It appears to me that there issues on both sides.

Some of the black teens were uninvited guests at a private pool. The white lady and police officer behaved very badly. Both sides were wrong.

However, I didn't really see the other cops doing much of anything to diffuse the situation and I did see teens swarming all around the area. I heard them being asked by the officer to 'sit on the ground until they get to the bottom of this.' That is a reasonable request no matter what color you are. Why did they not do this? Is the officer expected to leave unruly teens swarm around and out of sight? His first priority is to defend and protect himself. Those 2 boys came at him when his back was turned. I can't hear what they may have said to provoke the reaction of him unholstering his weapon.

There are too many missing facts here to pass judgement. However calling this an act of racism is jumping the gun a tad too quickly. Not every incident involving white cops and black people is racism. [/quote]

You know, I'd like to think that if I had done nothing wrong, and a cop insisted that I sit on the ground until they got to the bottom of things, I'd have the courage to say, "Am I being detained?" and insist that he be clear, one way or another, if he has the grounds to detain me.  But black kids don't have that right, do they?  If I had a black son, I'd never encourage him to exercise his 5th amendment right to ask if he is being detained, or be able to leave, because he'd probably end up dead.

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