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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by coldtea on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:10PM (#24252854)
>It would be fair to call it racism, if there was another instance of a white suspect acting the same way, and getting treated differently.

What about if the white person in the same situation wasn't even asked to stop in the first place?

It's not just about "how police treats blacks vs whites who refuse to stop" but also about "how often police asks blacks vs whites to stop".

Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by john_moscow on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:41PM (#24253131)
That would be fair if you could detangle if from specific suspicious behavioral patterns. Like wearing a mask (pre-pandemic) in a neighborhood where robberies by mask-wearing perpetrators are common.
Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by wonderwonder on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:48PM (#24253195)
Is it illegal to wear a mask? If the answer is no then the police have no right to stop him for wearing a mask. Police having the leeway to determine what is suspicious vs having to obey the law is what leads to thousands of minorities being stopped, roughed up and arrested for resisting arrest. If you are a minority and do nothing wrong, how many stops for being black would it take before you became a little defensive or frustrated? Imagine your life being constantly interrupted by uniform wearing people with a track record of killing people with your complexion.