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IronLionZion

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3. And you mostly deal with state police/highway patrol, who have more training

Thu Jul 6, 2017, 05:54 AM

Jul 2017

most cop shootings are with local cops who don't have as much, sometimes they are rookies or just irrationally scared of black people. Some are just plain racist. Police harassment of black people and thinking they are criminals goes back hundred years or more. Some idiots in some areas call the cops as soon they see a black or brown person in their neighborhood, including uniformed delivery drivers and utility workers.

Plenty of people have done everything you described and still got shot and killed.

Interstate drivers get pulled over more often, just in case they might get lucky and catch a drug dealer.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] Tobin S. Jul 2017 OP

Lol. You really think we don't know to do that? Solomon Jul 2017 #1

Good advice. I will tell my young relatives this. Sometimes one runs into a totally unqualified... brush Jul 2017 #2

And you mostly deal with state police/highway patrol, who have more training IronLionZion Jul 2017 #3

Any black person putting their hand out a window at a traffic stop BumRushDaShow Jul 2017 #4

That's the best bet. Nitram Jul 2017 #6

Yes, hands on steering wheel and stock-still Kind of Blue Jul 2017 #11

I've got some better advice. Be white. Nitram Jul 2017 #5

that is what is so frustrating and disgusting and disheartening ProfessorPlum Jul 2017 #7

Giving black people advice from a white perspective really isn't helpful. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2017 #8

Unless a particular demographic that drives ten times less is pulled over ten times more often LanternWaste Jul 2017 #9

"Forget dignity. Forget what's right." Forget you. AtheistCrusader Jul 2017 #10

I'm talkiing about in the context of the traffic stop. Tobin S. Jul 2017 #12

I can see that nothing I can say will be considered helpful here, Tobin S. Jul 2017 #13