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>>Tanger+(OP)
> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”

How is that racially charged?

>>JohnBe+79
It's a quote said in 1967 by Miami police Chief Walter Headley who was talking about how he will respond to protests against the police. For context, he also said he was against "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality"

The Chief got the phrase from the guy who used firehoses and dogs against children during the Birmingham, AL protests.

>>alasda+Y9
If you read "young hoodlums" and think of certain race maybe it's your own bias shining through. Where I grew up on Ohio the kids I considered "young hoodlums" didn't happen to be any specific race

>>derisi+He
Except Headley had used "hoodlums from the Negro districts" in the past, and it's pretty clear that it's being used similarly here.