MarcATL: I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
- What evidence do we have that this fellow was just sitting doing nothing? Was there any attempt at all to get the officers' side of the story?
- Black or white, warranted or not, would you not expect that refusing to stop and submit to inquiries would aggravate police officers? I don't know about you, but if a police officer insists that I stop so she can make inquiries, I stop. I don't blow her off. I don't keep walking. I don't insist 50 times that I've done nothing wrong while I continue to walk. I don't blow off the other officers who show up and warn me to my face that refusing to stop will lead to my arrest.
If this fellow was being interrogated simply because he's black, that's unfortunate. Given the video footage, I don't feel sorry for him. I've been stopped and questioned by police before. I respected they had a job to do. I answered their questions, tipped my hat, and was off.
Show me a video of a black man doing the same thing but being arrested anyway, I'll get angry about it.
Dude...
There's absolutely NO evidence of him doing anything wrong. Zero.
Why do you feel the necessity to suggest or imply that there was? Why not just take his word, AND THE EVIDENCE DEPICTED IN THE VIDEO.
Do you not see the injustice of a black person having to have to answer to the police questioning him for being where he's supposed to be for no other reason than he's black?
The problem with too many white people in this country is that you think the black experience that black people report is simply in our minds.
You do virtual back-flips to justify it and to "get the cops side of the story" as if there HAS to be some logical reason why this discrimination is happening to them, because somehow they MUST have done something to deserve it.
You just don't get it do you? You simply can't.
#SMH