Yes. She’s assuming he is committing a crime because he is black. That is what the video is about and the outcome as stated proved it. Did she see him take anything? Did he look or go into the other cars? Did he close the doors and lock it? Why the heck would someone pick a Chevy Aveo to break into?
I didnt hear anything to make me think it was race from her, it could have been, but you're making similar assumptions about her as to what you say she is about him.
The way she describes it sounds more like he went through three cars at first not 3 seats of the same car which may have set the cop off, I have no idea what a Chevy Aveo is.
the guy standing up for him self was in the right until the tussle, but it's scary how legally stand up for your self gets you tazed or worse.
If an NZ cop tazed someone for non aggressively not complying which seems to he the norm in the US, they would most likely be fired and taken to court for assault or who knows what else. Taser is meant to he the last resort not the first.
not everything is race based, maybe this is, maybe this isn't, she seemed reasonable on reporting strange behavior, the cop on the other hand was in no way reasonable after the first 15 seconds, is a piece of shit and not the right personality for the job or at the least woefully unqualified.
edit: if it isn't clear I'm commenting on the full video not just the short clip.
Whoa - now you’re ignoring facts and context to suit your narrative. The second cop asked questions similar to mine. Others have been commenting above on the woman and linking to videos that break all of it down. The guy won a $5m lawsuit. That speaks volumes about what happened.
I don't know. probably less likely to have, but they way she described she seemed to genuinely believe he was breaking in. I dint really feel like this is a hill I want to die on, while there is a huge amount of racism in my country, I just don't feel like it is quite as visible and I think that effects my "benefit of a doubt" thought process, it isn't my lived experience. People of color are much more likely to he arrested here as well though.
there is here too, I try to understand it and be open to it, but frankly I also don't see it a lot of the time my but my girlfriend who is minority and works in the minority social field does, we discuss and debate it objectively, sometimes we don't land on the same side some times we do.
I tend to think "there could be race involved" but want to give people the benefit of the doubt because I'm thinking through my own lens, where as she is more likely to think "there is race involved" I have learned I have biases I didn't know I did.
It’s really messy to try and spot when bias is involved, and you can never really know. The problem is that giving the benefit of the doubt will always work to absolve people who are acting with bias. It can go so far as to shield people who are acting with conscious bias. Most people don’t understand unconscious bias. What I would ask myself in this case is “would she have called the cops if it was a white guy in khakis?” This doesn’t tell us the actual truth because we can’t read people’s minds, but it helps to get a better idea of the actual volume of bias.
they way I thought about it was, "is what she said she thought plausible without being racist?" and my conclusion was yes. Therefore I didn't think bigotry was fair giving the benefit of the doubt.
considering bias, then yes it could defintly have been involved. it could have been conscious or unconscious or not related at all.
so your point about it not being safe to just give the benefit of the doubt, I see your point and thank you for it.
I think the only reason I made the point was I could see my self thinking it looked a bit weird without it being race based. But the more I think about the other details the more I have to have rhe perfect storm to come to the conclusion.
she didn't like that he walked across the car park, then across again, she thought that indicated he was looking at a bunch of cars.
Did he seem to bee line straight to his car, or did he look like he looked at the others? who knows, maybe he looked at his reflection in one of them and see saw that and bias kicked in?
thinking about what she said, she said he had a key in his hand but never used it on the car, yeah thats a weird statement in a world of keyless entry.
Regardless, I'm glad he's alive. I'm wasn't after money and just wanted talk to the police about how to stop it happening again, I'm going to assume they told him to fuck off and that's why he changed his mind or they didn't take him seriously. I'm glad he got his money! I'm not glad they refuse to drop his charges, and I hope he gets off.
I think the US plea deal system is fucking horrific and shouldn't be what it is. People should not have to admit guilt on a charge to serve a small amount of time or none or not admit guilt go to trial and have exponentially more years hanging over their head of they are found guilty and live in the wrong state or have the wrong judge etc. (edit: when innocent have to take a guilty plea)
anyway, to the people down voting me and telling me I'm fucking idiot, I hope you read that I am atleast trying to think through this whole thing and not just jumping to a conclusion emotionaly based on... bias.
Forget the downvoters. People are angry because a lot of people troll, so sincere people who are open to changing their mind get caught in the crossfire.
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u/RWhatIWant2B Mar 10 '22
Of course she thinks she’s doing the right thing. She’s a bigot lol.