For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped

Re:For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped by candiodari on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:44AM (#16726762)

As someone who travels into Britain on a regular basis and interacting with British police and customs officers:

You are delusional if you think your police force isn't racist. ESPECIALLY the customs officers, but also regular police.

I was watching some mental health videos online just last weekend, and I watched some from britain. And ... firstly minorities and the very poor are obviously overrepresented in these "groups". Second the "patients" are terrified of these mental health professionals. Utterly terrified. Thirdly, there is a clear difference in reaction patterns between white and black patients, and between muslim and non-muslim ones.

So just stop. Your police, and many other parts of the British state is explicitly attacking these people, on racist motives.

Just stop claiming otherwise. This is not incredible, this is normal.

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Re:For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped by cup-of-tea on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:30AM (#16727345)

I was actually talking about profiling based on driving an older car and in fact just getting randomly pulled over on the road in any circumstances.

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