Racial profile me if old.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/james-blake-mistakenly-handcuffed-nypd
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/james-blake-mistakenly-handcuffed-nypd
Ex-tennis star James Blake Mistakenly Tackled, Detained By White Cops
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valkillmore
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mmazurkiewicz
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most shocking thing i found in the OP was that james blake was once #4 in the world.
never knew that.
never knew that.
Angelus Errare
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That's been in the top 10 since 1776.
Not disagreeing with you, but
They might have thought they were stopping the next 9/11.
GoldenEye 007
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Tackled like that for a white collar crime? Sounds about right for one of the most racist organizations in the US.
Can't be too careful what with those optical pat downs.
Angelus Errare
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Not disagreeing with you, but
Looks like he's wearing one of those bald caps.
The list has since been condensed into just "don't be black. "
call_kotaku
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NYPD just making sure black folks know that even if you go to Harvard and become a successful athlete, they can still assault you in public for no reason
Thank god he shaved his had, he might have caught 54 to the chest with these
But it is a class and economic issue /s
Gordon Shumway
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Same as it ever was..ain't no hybrid light enough..
It had to be for a white collar crime. Why else would a black man be wearing a suit? - NYPD probably.
Also like how it starts with "Black former tennis star..." like if they had put the black after the former people might think he used to be black.
I mean, Raven Simone is a thing
evil solrac v3.0
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who the fuck does identity-theft standing in a street corner?
The natural evolution of loss prevention officers following black people around the store.
Shikamaru Ninja
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Compared to the general NYC population - Arabs, Latin Americans, Indians - he isn't definitively "black" in appearance.
bodyboarder
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Thank god he shaved his had, he might have caught 54 to the chest with these
But it is a class and economic issue /s
Be reasonable. Only 1 out of 54 would have hit, at best.
Lil'DigiOp
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This was an attack on Christianity
Not disagreeing with you, but
Heh. Slayven, the forum server isn't stable enough to go through another lightskin/darkskin discussion.
I'll just note that he failed the eye test and paid the price accordingly.
Oh, it's worse than that- the Cops are already in the store doing the following. They're embedded.
You really don't want to do this shikamaru
Because their jobs are so stressful that they have to immediately assume that they have to take extreme measures at all times. Did you know that walking up to a stationary black man is one of the most dangerous parts of being a police officer?
Sir Abacus
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Funny, that's what the Rehnquist Supreme Court thought as well.
Apparently if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a fucking horse until proven otherwise through the duck explicitly admitting it's a duck or being caught on tape calling itself a duck.
FortuneFaded
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John McEnroe was arrested in an episode of CSI New York becuase of mistaken identity.
We all are blacks to the NYPD.
Shikamaru Ninja
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I'm a person of color myself - there is a much broader concept of "race" in the NYC populace - as opposed to outside this melting pot. Not saying I know what the actual circumstances are.
I could see that - but I personally and professionally know some cops who are good people, many of them minorities. But trust me when I tell you I've encountered a ton of a**hole cops.
greenleaves
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Terrible. Blake was just going about his own business. There wasn't even a reason to tackle him. He wasn't resisting and was unarmed.
Angelus Errare
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Honestly I'm torn, sure on one hand he's black. But I mean he doesn't look 100% black black. They probably thought he fit the description of a white guy and tackled him. I think we need to stop thinking everything is about racism, like racism is never going to go away if we keep bringing it up every time something happens to someone. I mean maybe if the black community had better leaders and were in better shape, then blacks who are good people wouldn't be punished for the blacks who are bad crime. I think we need to dismantle our race based views in this country, stop seeing things as "black people this" or "white people" that and start seeing ourselves as once race the American race. Not to sound racist, but my best friend is black and even he agrees that black on black violence is the real problem in the black community, that and rap music glorifying money does black youth no good. Not to say it's black people's fault, they've been dealt a shitty hand in life, but slavery was 400 years ago, they gotta get over it. I personally don't see color. Black people also aren't helping matters by inconveniencing others by "protesting" and waging a war on cops.
TL;DR - If you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about. Race has nothing to do with it. America is pretty much post racial. This is what Bernie Sanders is trying to fix, our class and economic problem. Vote for Bernie
Yea he would have got clips from an entire squad if they saw him with that.
TL;DR - If you're not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about. Race has nothing to do with it. America is pretty much post racial. This is what Bernie Sanders is trying to fix, our class and economic problem. Vote for Bernie
Thank god he shaved his had, he might have caught 54 to the chest with these
Yea he would have got clips from an entire squad if they saw him with that.
R10Neymarfan
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You can be the poshest of black people and still get beat down for no reason. This sets a precedence, we're just not safe walking down the street anymore
Ninja Scooter
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because law enforcement has lost the benefit of the doubt.
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