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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 01:48 PM Sep 2014

When African-Americans point out to white society that cops are not there to “protect and serve”

them and white society is all “huh?,” this is a perfect example...


Jared Keller ✔ @jaredbkeller
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The LAPD mistook a black woman kissing her white husband for a prostitute. In America. In 2014 http://bit.ly/XflhIz

6:56 PM - 13 Sep 2014


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Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
1. What annoys me, is that it is now not a function of their mistake.
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 01:51 PM
Sep 2014

They are now bashing her for not showing her ID immediately.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
5. Yes, you hit the nail on the head. If they thought he was engaging her as a prostitute why did they
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 03:20 PM
Sep 2014

not arrest him as well. That has been a cry from feminists for decades.

Plus here we go again. Do these cops have any real crimes to investigate? Selling loose cigs, jaywalking, looking at toy guns in WalMart, - the list goes on. None of these are crimes that could do any real damage to us.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
3. There are just so many things wrong with that that every time I see somebody mention
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 01:53 PM
Sep 2014

it, I spot something new that's wrong about it.

Like the notion that simply 'being a prostitute' is illegal, as opposed to 'engaging in prostitution'. Ie, the fact that ANY woman could be handcuffed simply because police 'thought she was a prostitute', rather than actually having proof of any sort that she had accepted money in exchange for sex or the promise of sex.

You don't arrest someone for 'being a jewel thief'. You arrest them for actually stealing jewels, or trying to.

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