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I've been the victim of interracial crime, at least once due to my race. I did not consider the race of my assailants to be anywhere near the top of the list of characteristics to which I should like to object.
From Felipe Hoffa's twitter feed [0]: "Ali is a manager at Google. Ali is a doctor. Ali knows his rights. @aliafshar was brutally attacked by the police." Related tweets hint that the incident may have taken place in Santa Clara, California.. [0] https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/776131486437081088?la...
The last 9 out of 10 of these types of stories turned out to be completely hoaxed on the part of the victim.
This is why I teach my children never to speak to police officers, to avoid them as much as possible, and to leave the area should they become visibly present. And I live in Canada; when I travel to the USA on business I stay in the hotel or the venue and restrict my traveling as much as possible. I don't fear the citizens, I fear the police.
That's always made me sad. My ex was American - when we moved to Ireland, I made a habit of routinely (once a week or so) asking random policemen for directions to places, just to teach her that they're entirely approachable here. The closest thing we had to a bad experience, was one chap who took it upon himself to walk with us until we could see our destination, just to make sure we found it. I'd only wanted to was…
Santa Clara city has some racist cops. I was pulled over, accused of DUI, arrested, illegally searched my car, brought back to the station for a blood test. Blood test came back with zero alcohol in my body. They treated me like I was criminal, finger printed, mugshotted. After being held for two hours, I had to pay $300 to retrieve my car from the impound. I guess we still have a lot of bad cops in the Silicon Valle…
I'm sorry that this happened to the author, but the author has no common sense whatsoever. In addition to suing these officers and the police department, he should probably consider getting some common sense and never approaching a police officer again. I mean, seriously, what did he expect would happen? That they would let him check the suspect? That's so incredibly far-fetched and ridiculous, I cannot even imagine…
In our politically correct world, commonsense is no longer desirable.
We need a system of collective punishment for such conduct. "Good" police officers should fear losing their livelihoods for helping cover up the abuses of "bad" ones. For example, lawyers are subject to professional discipline for failing to rat out the misconduct of other lawyers. Liability also flows up to supervisors from reports. It creates a healthy culture of paranoia. There is no reason police should be held to a lesser standard.
From Felipe Hoffa's twitter feed [0]: "Ali is a manager at Google. Ali is a doctor. Ali knows his rights. @aliafshar was brutally attacked by the police." Related tweets hint that the incident may have taken place in Santa Clara, California.. [0] https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/776131486437081088?la...
Article says El Camino, California (perhaps an update?)