Robert Davis, the man that got mollywopped by the New Orleans Police Department, has spoken about his encounter with the fuzz. I mentioned before that the old man adamantly claims that he wasn’t drunk, but he also said that the beatdown he took wasn’t racially motivated.
If he believes that, they must have beaten him worse than we realized.
Quick survey…every time you see a cat on camera gettin’ the brakes beaten off him, what race is he?
When you hear terrible stories about harassment from the police, who’s telling the story?
If you’re black–black and ma;e, specifically–do you have a story about being targeted unfairly by the police? Have you gotten a search for no reason? Have you been pulled over for something that isn’t a crime? Have you not been told why you got pulled over? Have you stared down the barrel of a pistol for reasons that could be best described as inexplicable? And have these things happened to you more than once?
If you’re white, ask yourself the same questions.
If you have been to New Orleans for the Bayou Classic, what was the police presence like? If you’ve been there for the Sugar Bowl or Mardi Gras, how did the police presence compare?
Now that we’re done with that, feel free to put some of those answers on the comments. Then, we can start discussing whether this was racially motivated.
The bottom line–the police are harder on black people than white folks, and that’s indisputable. So maybe the old man thinks they would have beaten him up if he were white. The real question is whether they would have even spent any time dealing with him if he were white. Would he have been on the wall had he been white?
See, we’ve gotta deconstruct it like that before we even consider whether they beat his ass because he’s black. It’s so much deeper than that with a much larger scope.
The problem isn’t so much that he said this, but that apologists of these degenerate cops will now say, “see, it wasn’t about him being black.”
If you really think that, then someone must be reading this to you. No one stupid enough to believe that is capable of reading.
October 13, 2005
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