I personally didn't hear about the story until the cop was arrested. When it comes to the talk of marijuana and searches that didn't come from anything I read so that come from your sources. You do realize that was a crime scene? Also nobody look at it thru the polices eyes. We're not talking about very good neighborhoods where in this country black on black crime is by far the highest rate and these are dangerous areas we talking about.. Cops lives are in danger and sometimes like you said its a split second decision. Its not only blacks that get profiled ok. Hispanics get profiled. Maybe the way somebody dresses. I had tough times with the law cuz I had long hair and was judged. Thing is there is profiling but don't get some kind of cock attitude to retaliate. How about listening. Keeping your hands clear. Don't run. How bout instead of just looking at one side step into the polices shoes.
Sure, there may be "other" people groups that are profiled but let's keep it real! This country's "major" issue unfortunately, is and has always been between blacks and whites due to the Peculiar Institution known as Slavery! We blacks are and have been constantly fighting against systemic social problems in this nation that have been designed to marginalize and to keep us subjugated since the days of slavery (i.e. Segregation, Jim Crow and the Black Codes, The One Drop Rule, The Birth of a Nation film etc.). And then non-blacks wonder why certain segments of my people group have such a distrust for law enforcement? Really? Now, I'm not condoning bad behavior by no means. I believe in obeying the law. My dad is a retired Chief of Police. My family (a military, black family) obeys the laws of this land but we are far from being blinded to, ignorant or avoidant of the social injustices that our people face on a daily basis in this nation.
What kills me is the hypocrisy in this nation when it comes to the issues of race. Non-blacks in this nation praise the remembrance of the Jewish Holocaust...and rightfully so. Over 6 millions Jews were stripped of their birthright and properties and then marked for death. Horrendous event! There's documentary after documentary after documentary on the topic. But, when it comes to the Black Holocaust (i.e. The Middle Passage) and the millions of Africans (Blacks) murdered, brutalized, raped, burned, lynched and hung, castrated, families ripped apart and sold during slavery and even after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed etc., we're told to;
"Just forget about it! Let it go! It happend so long ago!" So, why praise the remembrance of a Holocaust that happened overseas in Germany but not the one that happened in your own backyard in the "good ole' U.S.A?
Things are better but we still have major racial issues between black and white in our nation that have not been dealt with! Kap kneeling brought an awareness to the systemic issue of white officers not only killing "unarmed" blacks but then getting away with it! When a black man can get shot and killed in his own home by an off duty officer who is identified days after the event and then have his character assinated to protect that white officer, it's quite clear that the system is broken and rigged against black people in general and more than other "profiled" people groups.