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Dear Cops……You Look Suspicious!
If “looking suspicious” or “like a criminal” were against the law, then you cops would be in A LOT OF TROUBLE.
You look like criminals EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
You walk around wearing “gang colors” and a protective vest with various weapons on your person, while you’re on duty. We should be asking ourselves where you’re going with all that tactical gear and what you might be planning to do with it.
Your guns shoot people, often fatally. Your tasers ……..pretty much the same story and half the people you tase and punch are ALEADY CUFFED IN THE BACK OF YOUR CRUISERS!! Besides protecting you from getting shot, your tactical vests add weightiness to your body when you pin your victims to the ground and kneel on their necks. Your giant flashlights are used to blind and bludgeon people. The ONE never used weapon in your tool box is your deescalation and diplomacy training.
No. I take it back. You don’t just LOOK like criminals……..You ARE criminals:
You pulled this Black lady over, NOT because she was a criminal……..NOT because she LOOKED like a criminal, but because she was BLACK!
Also, she was alone and so she was an easy mark. I’ll circle back to this in a moment. First, let’s talk a little more about “acting suspicious”: