Reply #104: It would be hard. [View All]

[Isome]

I was a teenager in the late 70's and early 80's. There wasn't a month that went by without a newsstory on television, in a magazine, or in the newspaper that chronicled a civil rights lawsuit, or formally filed complaint of police brutality, illegal stops, etc. I remember, too, the former California police officer who documented the endemic racism, within the LAPD, with a camcorder. He captured frightening footage of the police stopping him and shoving his head through a plateglass window. With the passage of time, and the subsequent loss of details down the memory hole, it is not easy.

Even relaying personal experiences aren't accepted by those who decide the experiences and perspectives of other people lack veracity.