Some Still Claim Race Does Not Matter

[erpowers]

Even someone in the comments section of the video claimed the difference between this guy and black guys is that he did not reach for either of the officers' guns. This guy did worse than reach for the officers' guns. I and others could be wrong, but I think if this guy had been a black person he would have been killed.

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

Of course race matters.

[Moral Compass]

2. K&R

If this guy had been black he'd be dead now. No doubt.

I'm in Texas and I've been watching the Sandra Bland video and reading the transcript.

I've done exactly what she did with a couple of cops that pulled me over for bullshit reasons and nothing happened to me. We had a shouting match, but they wrote me the ticket and went away.

Sandra Bland refuses to put out a cigarette she is smoking in her car and the cop insists she get out of the car and then gets physical with her and she resists and now she's dead (suicide my ass, btw). What's the difference?

I'm a white guy who shows his irritation and is very sarcastic (got pulled over for 49 in a 45 zone) and I get a ticket. Sandra gets arrested for changing lanes without a signal when it was the cop car coming up on her at a high rate of speed that made her change lanes.

Now this guy in a food court or a fast food restaurant starts punching the cops and they still don't pull their guns.

He's white. That's the difference. We're white. We get a free pass on a lot of stuff. They tased him but didn't shoot.

Wow. Just wow.

[heaven05]

3. if this privileged individual

had been an unprivileged POC or any POC for that matter, at :46sec he would have been shot dead.

[heaven05]

4. this will probably

drop like a stone....a lot of people don't really want the truth, here or elsewhere in america. That includes so called liberals and progressives.

[mmonk]

5. No doubt.