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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
The "racial tones" come from the fact that this is yet another case of a black man being the victim of police homicide. This is a structural problem with "off the record" police procedures and the profiling and treatment of "usual suspects." This is less about the race of the officers in question.
Here's the NY Times story from 2006:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/refere...ell/index.html |
Well, and I'm sure a lot of it has to do with my assumption (and other people may do this too) that any police brutality case which receives significant attention probably has a racial element. I'm sure that isn't entirely accurate, but those stories seem more likely to be well-publicized.
But yes, I think police brutality and racial profiling often run up against each other. Also, police brutality arguably disproportionately impacts the inner-city poor, which often brings in an element of racial divide.