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Originally Posted by Cheri
It can happen to anyone not because they happened to be black, There was one time when a police was responding to a false shooting call, the police broke into a deaf person's apartment and shot him with a taser when he was getting out of his bath. Do you see any deaf people protesting and defending their own culture? There was another deaf person who was fatally shot in the back at a bus stop, the police mistook him for a weapon, but it was a card saying he was deaf. Police are just humans, they make mistakes.
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Those are some mistakes! Maybe the Deaf should have protested and defended their culture. Make the police, and the general public, a little more aware so it doesn't continue to happen. Someone should not loose their life because the police thought a card was a weapon. If you aren't willing to stand up for injustice such as this, it could very well be you next.
You cannot deny the fact that the are disproportionate shootings and arrests, not to mention jail time and longer sentences, for minority groups, and especially those of African American decent.
But again. how exactly is Al Sharpton playing the race card in this instance?