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[scaeagles]

I am not a huge fan of Chris Rock, but once he said something to the effect of "If you don't want to get beat up by the cops, then do what they tell you!". The requests made by the officer were not in the least unreasonable. All he asked was for the man to calm down and stop shouting in public.

How many times should he have been asked to calm down? Perhaps his bahavior might have been construed as having the potential to incite violence. An older black man on his front porch yelling about being harrassed by a racist cop might very well incite violence.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

How many times should he have been asked to calm down? Perhaps his bahavior might have been construed as having the potential to incite violence. An older black man on his front porch yelling about being harrassed by a racist cop might very well incite violence.

Yes, I'm sure the streets of Harvard's faculty housing would have burned, burned, burned.

Glad to see you're ok with police arresting you just because you've not been as polite as they'd like. And that doing so is simply completely rational behavior.

I agree with Chris Rock. If you don't to get arrested you should be prepared to all but tongue shine their shoes, regardless of why you're interacting with them (not because all cops are douches but because the ones who are don't wear signs). But that does not make it right for you to be arrested if you don't or smart for the police officers taking the gamble that they're doing it to someone lacking the connections to make something of it.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Sorry, but EVERY TIME a black man is arrested for such weaksauce alpha cop bullsh!t, it's bloody well racist.

Not necessarily. I knew plenty of white people who were arrested for talking back. Charges that were always dropped after being processed and allowing to stew for a while.

If there's obvious racism in this story it is that nobody would have cared if it weren't Louis Gates.