> But that just speaks to how pervasive a lot of these kinds of structures are.
Cop dramas are popular even in largely monoracial societies that have high respect for their police, and the same tropes exist there(regarding describing suspects in certain terminology).
Would she have told a white man that she was going to "call the cops and tell them a white man was threatening her"?. The prevailing opinion of the situation seems to be that she wouldn't have. IIRC this was also steeped in the context of a number of other videos where people had been explicitly mentioning a black person's race for "help" in contrived/unthreatening situations that they had often started.
The context this video was steeped in has nothing to do with whether this lady decided to weaponize his race or not. They were completely unrelated events, with unrelated people, that we're not even sure the lady knew about.
I mean, that's the point I'm trying to make. The fact that she could weaponize his race is a problem to being with.
>Keep in mind this lady was a vocal supporter of BLM before this incident happened.
And mind you, I don't actually think she's some kind of virulent or bad person. It's more about recognizing some of the injustices we unfortunately live with.
> But her behavior may be explained as her just describing the man in a manner she's seen on TV shows
And you know, you're right she could be. But that just speaks to how pervasive a lot of these kinds of structures are.