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I like to think I've been paying attention - I'm a person of color who grew up with some financial privilege, I'm a quiet, introverted nerd, and it was obvious from highschool onward that police treated me much differently than my white friends. When I was 17, I got pulled over at 1am on a small unlit backroad, but the cop didn't get out of his car. He stayed in his car, told me via the megaphone to exit my vehicle, put my hands behind my head, walk backwards, put my hands on the trunk, while he frisked me, then put me in the back of the cop car and searched my vehicle, then let me go, telling me "it's a dangerous area and I shouldn't be out this late". Speeding tickets were always aggressive encounters. That stuff sticks with you.

That said, I still found the attacks on the press this week absolutely shocking. Police treating people of color differently than white people is absolutely nothing new. Attacking and arresting credentialed journalists, while they are clearly identifying themselves and broadcasting on live TV is something I never thought I'd see in America.

>>rrrrrr+(OP)
Apparently violating the Fourth Amendment, I suppose it's not worth much in practice.

>>incomp+mh
It would be worth more if there were more accessible consequences for police officers and departments who violate it.

>>rrrrrr+(OP)
> Attacking and arresting credentialed journalists, while they are clearly identifying themselves and broadcasting on live TV is something I never thought I'd see in America.

You can thank your president, who labelled the press as "The enemy of the people" for that too.

Words have consequences.

>>Captai+nR
That's not even "I was just following orders". Actions have consequences, too, and people are responsible for their actions.