How do you know the officer stopped him because he was “walking while black”. Did you see the entire encounter? Did you find out why he was stopped? Did you get the same reports at briefing the officer got about someone wanted for committing a crime that matched his description? Did you read the reports where the “victim” provided that description? Do you know that minorities are 5 times as likely to be a victim of a violent crime? Did you know a member of the same minority group is the suspect in 87% of those crimes?
Have you ever walked down the street in a minority community? And if so have you ever seen a person and cross the street or thought he looks suspicious? Have you ever called 911 to report a suspicious person with no evidence they committed a crime but they “looked” suspicious to you? Have you had any human behavioral training to learn what people do when they are up to no good?
Have you ever risked not coming home to your family and making your spouse a widow or your kids orphans so that someone you don’t even know can live another day ?
You need to have some serious self reflection and realize what you said is full of prejudice. Most people who find fault in strangers do so because of the faults they find in themselves but just don’t want to recognize it.
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