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>>danso+(OP)
> “I blame myself,” she kept saying. “I never let him out on Halloween. A bunch of Black boys together. I shouldn’t have let him out. But he begged me.”

Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.

(Just to spell it out: this is why so many BLM activists feel comfortable saying "abolish the police" or "defund the police", because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals)

> “Young teens or pre-teens of color were handcuffed, arrested, or held at gunpoint while participating in age-appropriate activities such as running, playing with friends, high-fiving, sitting on a stoop, or carrying a backpack.”

This is child abuse.

>>pjc50+Ck
I’m not a parent, but as a white person: the police have scared me much more than random people on the street for my entire adult life.

>>swiley+4a1
Agreed. As a white person and a minority in ways that can and can't be hidden, I've had the experience of interacting with cops when they think that I'm "one of them", and interacting with them when I clearly was an other.

It's a night and day difference, and I can only imagine it's much worse for those with different skin colors.