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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
An alternate perspective is cops are trying hard, and are succeeding, at making poor neighborhoods safer. However, due to gang culture, many people are heavily and illegally armed, and do not hesitate to shoot to kill. Cops, like all humans, are not fans of dying, so they are trained to respond very quickly if armed escalation is a possibility. As an unfortunate result, innocent people are sometimes killed in these neighborhoods, despite cops doing their best to protect people. When these accidents do happen, due to the high politicization of the issue, cops are very tight lipped about what goes on in their departments. So, a lot of what we see can also be explained as good intentioned human beings doing a very difficult and dangerous job. Why are we so quick to assume the worst about our fellow citizens who are putting their lives on the line for our safety?

>>yters+Fy1
Relating this back to the article, I just want to let you know Carroll Gardens is definitely not a poor neighborhood. Your alternate perspective does not hold up there.