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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by bsanr2 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:07AM (#24252049)
The uncomfortable truth is that authorities regularly misidentify black men as being bigger/taller/older/darker than they actually are. Whether that's an issue specific to police indoctrination or to American culture in general, it's clearly part of what happened here.

Apologies to the HN users who will be incensed at the notion of race playing a role in this situation.

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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by dirtnugget on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:31PM (#24253048)
Even today a common misconception among white doctors is that black people have thicker skin than white people or even that their nerv endings are less sensitive.

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patient...

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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by ashtonkem on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:45PM (#24255926)
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, cops in the early 20th century requested larger calibers and hotter loads from gun manufacturers because they believed black people survived gun shots better than white people.
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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by jhardy54 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:12AM (#24252449)
> Apologies to the HN users who will be incensed at the notion of race playing a role in this situation.

No apologies necessary, receiving a dose of reality is good for them.

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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by dirtnugget on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:28PM (#24253557)
So true.
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