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Originally Posted by Mr. Maryland
Ferguson has shown me (most of all) that being poor sucks, and in poor neighborhoods anyone of any color is more likely to have bad encounters with police. It's a fact of life that when police deal with hood crime day in and day out, they are going to have a different manner of handling the public. It's up to the individual to recognize that there will always be poor areas that are rough (and policed rough), and do what it takes to get out.
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We should not, however, excuse any behavior by the pd that goes any established procedures, and those should not differ based on the income of the region's population.
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