i don't feel that black people fight with the police any more than any other group. I don't know about the Seattle area but in a lot of places you have white police officers who have never been around black people and don't live in the area they patrol. They may have skewed ideologies about black people (like several people on this board). Couple that with fear and you sometimes have an officer who knowingly or unknowingly disrespecting the very people he is suppose to protect and serve. If the officer is already afraid of or have no understanding of the people he is trying to patrol, than he is more likely to react with a use of force or charge someone with resisting. A lot of times if that same officer and the same incident were to occur with a white suspect in an area with a different racial makeup, the officer would not act the same. I think that is what angers a lot of black people, when you see on the news a black male was shot 35 times by the police or a black child was killed by police in pursuit of a suspect. They feel the police would have been more cautious or tried to use other means had the person been white.
cultural sensitivity training is most crucial in this field.
i do feel the officer had the right to defend himself to keep the girls away from his gun, but i am almost positive had that been a 17 year old white female he would have found other means of getting her off of him.
cultural sensitivity training is most crucial in this field.
i do feel the officer had the right to defend himself to keep the girls away from his gun, but i am almost positive had that been a 17 year old white female he would have found other means of getting her off of him.