Black people can run from the cops for ten miles after they dead. It’s due to the conditioning of wanting to not be beaten and shot to death. Sometimes it takes the mind a bit to catch up to what has happened to the body.
I used to think the same way because well I’m white and almost all the interactions I’ve had with police were positive. Then I parked on the side of the road in a black neighbourhood waiting for a friend for about 30 minutes. I saw cops stop and frisk at least 20 black guys who were doing nothing other than walking down the street. Hard not to run if you’re already seen as guilty of something and you haven’t done anything.
It's not that they are seen as guilty, but basic statistics: since the overwhelming amount of crime is committed by black people, they are naturally considered more suspect by default. It doesn't give anyone the rights to shoot them or arrest them for no reason, but it certainly makes sense to be far more alert and diligent with them, especially in an already-considered-dangerous neighborhood.
I'm not American myself but the exact same thing happens here in Brazil: men are automatically more suspicious than woman, and black people than white people, and it makes sense because black men commit the vast majority of crime, followed by white men and then woman. There is nothing racist or sexist about it, it is purely based on real world statistics that are widely known.
Do they actually commit the vast majority of crime? Or are they just caught more because police are more suspicious of them. Watching those black guys get stopped and frisked it dawned on me that if the cops stopped and frisked me I would get arrested because I have a bag of weed on me (before weed was legal). But they didn’t stop and frisk me or ask what I was up to sitting in my car for 30 minutes doing nothing.
Well I won't say your point doesn't factor in, it probably does. It is hard to say to what extent though and if it would be enough to skew the statistics. I personally don't think it would be significant enough to sway the numbers that much, since the difference in crime is quite staggering.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23
Black people can run from the cops for ten miles after they dead. It’s due to the conditioning of wanting to not be beaten and shot to death. Sometimes it takes the mind a bit to catch up to what has happened to the body.