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Originally posted by mccoyred
To me, there are two issues:
1) The wearing or not wearing of the lapel pin does NOT guarantee that someone is who they say they are. I feel that if she was a white male (or even a white female), then the situation would have been handled differently by the officer; I have seen this situation myself too many times to count. This whole hairstyle thing is a red herring, IMHO.
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Agreed, but the reality is that is the easiest way to be identified. I read that the officer asked her to stop 2 or 3 times and she did not. At that point he grabbed her arm. What other way do you think he should have handled it? I can imagine someone walking by you fast and not getting good look at their face and, because the hair style is different not knowing who it was. I have stood behind people I know in fastfood lines and not recognized them. I would gather that the officers are instructed to use face recognition first (based on your statement that the pin does not guarantee that someone is who they say they are), lapel pin second and then maybe some picture ID.
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Originally posted by mccoyred
2) Regardless, the officer should not have put his hands on her. If he wanted to detain her, then I am sure that there is a proper procedure to do so. I , too, would have probably acted up if some man put his hands on me, especially to restrain me or placed them in an inappropriate place. He messed with the wrong sista!
Frankly, this situation happens in some form or another every day
Oh, yeah, this is is the news at the same time of the incident at Duke. Why can't white men keep their d@$m hands to themselves? Yeah, I said it!
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So if a security guard tries to verbally stop someone and they don't, what do you think they should do to detain the person if they can't "put their hands" on them? I think, in this day and age, McKinney should be glad all he did was grab her.
You know, I am not so Polly anna that I don't believe and KNOW that racism is alive and well and happening every day. I see it in my personal and professional life all of the time. But to take two dissimilar events are paint a broad stroke against white males is beyond rediculous. We gotta stop