Confirms what most Black people knew all along.
It was July, 2016 when a police lieutenant in Cobb County, Georgia by the name of Greg Abbott pulled over a vehicle he suspected of Driving Under the Influence. The white woman who was sitting in the passenger’s seat appeared incredibly nervous and said she was afraid to move her hands in front of the police officer due to the fact that she’d seen “way too many videos of cops” – an obvious reference to numerous videos of cops shooting people and then falsely claiming their victims appeared to be reaching for a weapon. What Lt. Abbott said to the woman in response, perhaps trying to assuage her fears, only confirmed in the eyes of many what they’ve long suspected was an unwritten rule of police protocol.
Sandra Bland is an example of the different way cops react when they interact with a Black person during a traffic stop.
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Wow, I haven’t heard this. Wow!!! What??? What??? I upset at this. This was not a joke. He shouldn’t have said that.
As African-Americans we have known this for years. This is just confirmation. If he feels that way so do most of the other white police officers. We are just targets to the police.
Shameful! These are the real thugs who make good officers look bad.
As African Americans we knew this all along. We are just hearing confirmation.
Basically Black people are just targets to and for most white police officers