HuffPo story on danger of white people calling cops on POCs

[brush]

The past few weeks have seen a spate of news stories about white Americans calling the police on people of color who appear to be simply going about their lives ― whether waiting at a Starbucks, golfing, attending a university tour, leaving an Airbnb, napping or barbecuing.

These incidents have sparked fierce debate about racism in the U.S. In most of these cases there was no apparent threat of harm, making it hard to avoid the conclusion that the people who called the police did so because of a conscious or unconscious belief that people of color simply don’t belong, or that they inherently pose a danger or threat.

Ironically, the real danger in such encounters often comes from white Americans calling 911 on their neighbors of color ― effectively deploying the threat of violence, as police interactions with black people in particular are disproportionately likely to end in excessive force or death.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-people-calling-cops-on-people-of-color_us_5af5d573e4b032b10bfa7036

[Cha]

1. And, they've been calling the police on them

for Nothing. Endangering their lives for Nothing.

Thanks, brush

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I remember walking through the nineties, and the decade that followed, drowned

and outnumbered by the white folk that claimed that racism did not exist.

What is happening today did not just manifest itself magically. This conversation on racism awareness is out in the open in a way that is was never allowed before. And I say, Amen. Thank you BLM, for leading the way and cutting through the bullshit.