it's not only black people you simple minded fools. i work, pay taxes, am white, and currently have a case pending against the police department in my city. my father was a biker apart of a motorcycle club who was under investigation for his involvement in 2 bodies got charged for the third. everything was good until i caught my first charge, they found out who my dad was and the harrassment started from there.
and i see harrassment of every nationality not just blacks/whites. it's a class thing. police only take it easy on the upper class because their areas cause less problems and they are less threatened by them.
most of you saying this shit probably never been harrassed by police which is why you're so oblivious and dont know how harrassment stands in the present. you know nothing about excessive use of force, illegal search and siezures.
if you're walking down the street 2 o'clock in the morning with a hoodie on, a cop stopping you and asking you ?uestions and patting you down is not harrasment. you should study your states laws if you think it is.
what this officer did was wrong. what they did to sean bell is wrong. what they did to the kid in philly is wrong ( ya'll seen the video - 13 cops holding a kid down and another running and punting his head while the others pummeled him. )
but also, all white and from my area: cops came to a domestic abuse call where a well known neighborhood guy named chief was drunk and billigerent. ended up tusseling with the cops, knocked one out, then they all jumped on him beat the piss out of him with batons and a cop had his knee in chief's neck until he stopped breathing.
^ i've been tasered. it would have done the trick. chief's girlfriend who was beat up by chief said chief was saying he gave up before the cops put their knee on his neck.
another man drunk and with a bb gun gets shot 12 times and once in the face by police. in the face? 12 times in other places? let me know if im reaching but this seems unreasonable.
shit like this goes unnoticed all around the country to all different kinds of people. lets not forget how the arabics must feel.