Black Teen handcuffed while White Teen allowed to sit on couch

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I was just getting ready to post about this. From the article below, it seems the altercation started because the White boy, a high school student was picking on a younger (boy) and Kyle, who was mishandled by the police tried to help. I'm glad this video has gone viral and is causing outrage at the disparity of treatment. The NAACP has called for the dismissal of those officers. Another "Here we go again" situation! And this happened in my state. :cautious:
 
It's just disgusting. I can't believe this is still happening in our country. It breaks my heart when I hear Black mothers talking about how they have to prepare their sons to go out into the world. It is unconscionable.

I can somewhat empathize being gay, but that is nothing compared to the bias based on skin color. I would gladly give up some of my White Privilege to create some semblance of balance in our society.

I hope those officers receive what they deserve.
 
dseag2 said:
It's just disgusting. I can't believe this is still happening in our country. It breaks my heart when I hear Black mothers talking about how they have to prepare their sons to go out into the world. It is unconscionable.

I can somewhat empathize being gay, but that is nothing compared to the bias based on skin color. I would gladly give up some of my White Privilege to create some semblance of balance in our society.

I hope those officers receive what they deserve.
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I do too!
 
All parents should have "the talk" with their kids. It should be; don't break the law, don't get in fights, don't resist the police. Ebone should be "disappointed" in her brawling son, not the police.

I think the Chris Rock PSA should be shown in all high schools bad language or not:
 
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Chris P Bacon said:
The kid in the hoodie looked as though he was still combative, even though handcuffed, as the police sat him down.
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He wasn't handcuffed at that point. At .27 in the video, the cops pulled the two apart and the black teen on the floor tried to get up to hit the Hispanic guy even though the cops had pulled the other away. The Hispanic teen wasn't still trying to fight at this point. I can see the cops split second decision to handcuff based on that.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I was just getting ready to post about this. From the article below, it seems the altercation started because the White boy, a high school student was picking on a younger (boy) and Kyle, who was mishandled by the police tried to help. I'm glad this video has gone viral and is causing outrage at the disparity of treatment. The NAACP has called for the dismissal of those officers. Another "Here we go again" situation! And this happened in my state. :cautious:
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Well, at least they just knelt on this young man's back instead of on his neck until he was dead.
 
I'm white, so I've never been discriminated because of my race. I'm not black, either. I don't know how discrimination feels like. It's just in my lifetime, that a black person could have a sandwich at the "white" section of a dinner. People do not change their beliefs, and traditions overnight. It's hard to see the person, and not see the "race". And I don't think we, whites, have any idea of the psychological trauma of slavery, even 150+ years after it was abolished. I also think blacks live in two cultures. One is the greater "white" culture, and a black subculture. To gain acceptance in the greater culture, they will have to give up some of their black culture. It's a hard thing to do. It's something all ethnic groups have to deal with.
 
AnnieA said:
He wasn't handcuffed at that point. At .27 in the video, the cops pulled the two apart and the black teen on the floor tried to get up to hit the Hispanic guy even though the cops had pulled the other away. The Hispanic teen wasn't still trying to fight at this point. I can see the cops split second decision to handcuff based on that.
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Quoting to add that I would've cuffed them both. But...I think the cops will defend their action based on that part of the clip.
 
I couldn't tell by the video the skin color of either teen. The difference for me was the sensational title of
Black Teen Handcuffed. The teen in the white hoodie was my clue as to which was which.

I took away the title, sound & interview & watched the video of two teens fighting. When breaking up the fight the teen in the white hoodie continued to be aggressive. Makes sense to me that the police would focus on the continued aggression. As for kneeling on his back. That seems to me to be a taught tactic to assure control. Not cuffing the teen wearing black made sense because he sat down, didn't try to run away & was willing to be handcuffed. One complied immediately, one remained aggressive.

My conclusion

Another great article/presentation to keep the racial divisive theme going.
 
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Neither one was white, in actuality, it seems. One boy was identified as black and he appeared so to my eyes, while the other boy said that he identified as hispanic, which is not caucasian or "white". The black young man was allowed a seat though it wasn't on a couch. The police probably had them shake hands afterward and offered them cake but I bet the hispanic youth got a bigger piece of cake than than the black youth. Stay tuned because I imagine there will be a lawsuit filed.
 
I don't know HOW it's ever going to change. About 4 months ago almost the same scenario happened with our police here.
They were called to a house for hollering & cussing & abuse.

Police got there they separated all the people, Sat everyone in different chairs no handcuffs. All of a sudden a black kid pulled a gun out of the chair he was sitting on & shot a policewoman. Lucky she had on her bulletproof vest.

They then handcuffed everyone there. If that black kid had been handcuffed he could not have got to the gun & could still be out of jail. Now he's looking at attempted murder on a police person or life in prison.

The sad state we are living in. Police have to make a split-second decision. Some are right & some are wrong.
 
My wife is a social worker counselor, an MSW. When we lived in Florida she had a private practice in an office in a small town. One day she had a black person, a client, waiting to see her. The black man decided to wait outside, it was a nice day, he walked around the property and sat on the porch.

A neighbor called the police and reported him as a suspicious person. Fortunately the police were pretty good about it, and after talking to the man and my wife all ended peacefully.

However in the almost 10 years she was in that office no one ever called the police to report any of her white clients. Most of her clients were white.

The black man just took it in stride, made no complaints and was cooperative with the police. However I am sure he knew what was happening... he had to have.
 
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Neither one was white, in actuality, it seems. One boy was identified as black and he appeared so to my eyes, while the other boy said that he identified as hispanic, which is not caucasian or "white". The black young man was allowed a seat though it wasn't on a couch. The police probably had them shake hands afterward and offered them cake but I bet the hispanic youth got a bigger piece of cake than than the black youth. Stay tuned because I imagine there will be a lawsuit filed.
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Thread drift alert! As I was typing my post above, I thought about why I capitalize Hispanic and not black or white. It doesn't seem equitable to do it, but I do because Hispanic is derived from the proper noun name of a nation, same with Asian for the continent. I do capitalize African American since both parts are proper nouns, but hardly ever use the term since black people around here use black. I would for Caucasian as well, but think this may be the first time I've ever typed it.
 
I thought about it too and as sensitive as everyone is about nearly EVERYTHING these days, I thought that I'm already in the dog-house about enough other things without adding one more. But I look at it as I'm here among "friends", or mostly so, anyway and if we were having an actual conversation, my spoken words wouldn't be capitalized. But yes, these days, rather than risk offending someone, especially about anything dealing with race, I'm usually pretty careful. Then again, those words in pink are a sort of "insurance" policy that I can point to if someone wants to be offended.

I don't mean to be offensive but if you feel that I am so, that's not my doing. Not you, again, worrying that my words be taken the wrong way but to anyone I interact with. I love this place and I actually enjoy most of the people I interact with. I'm pretty sure that I've ruffled a few feathers and mine have been ruffled, at times, as well but all in all, this is a fun place and I'd be sad if I couldn't be here anymore.
 
Chris P Bacon said:
I thought about it too and as sensitive as everyone is about nearly EVERYTHING these days, I thought that I'm already in the dog-house about enough other things without adding one more. But I look at it as I'm here among "friends", or mostly so, anyway and if we were having an actual conversation, my spoken words wouldn't be capitalized. But yes, these days, rather than risk offending someone, especially about anything dealing with race, I'm usually pretty careful. Then again, those words in pink are a sort of "insurance" policy that I can point to if someone wants to be offended. I don't mean to be offensive but if you feel that I am so, that's not my doing. Not you, again, worrying that my words be taken the wrong way but to anyone I interact with. I love this place and I actually enjoy most of the people I interact with. I'm pretty sure that I've ruffled a few feathers and mine have been ruffled, at times, as well but all in all, this is a fun place and I'd be sad if I couldn't be here anymore.
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Nope you can’t possibly leave I need a target for my frustrations…
( I am kidding) so enough of this not here anymore…tis rather tiring dude!🤦‍♀️
 
AnnieA said:
Thread drift alert! As I was typing my post above, I thought about why I capitalize Hispanic and not black or white. It doesn't seem equitable to do it, but I do because Hispanic is derived from the proper noun name of a nation, same with Asian for the continent. I do capitalize African American since both parts are proper nouns, but hardly ever use the term since black people around here use black. I would for Caucasian as well, but think this may be the first time I've ever typed it.
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Interesting observation, but Annie if your capitalization was the worst of our problems we'd be golden. LOL!
 

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