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Originally Posted by AshleyO
BB, that's the whole point. You and I both expect the cops to be more careful and to be more judicious about how they handle a situation. However, the issue lies in the fact that cops are already conditioned to see non-white men as enemies to peace. Non-white people are guilty until proven innocent or just thought of as guilty and then killed. So add a gun into that mix that the cops KNOW the person has and what you're going to get is outright no questions asked shoot them before anything else.
Now it would make sense to do such a thing as arming an entire population if the population thought it necessary to do so, but only on the condition that we had a system that wasn't inherited from racism. But it is and so therefor, we're stuck with having to deal with that.
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I was actually going to add, that my police training seemed rather conditioned to being anti-PoC. Not intentionally, it's just, there.