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Regardless of department protocol and errors (mistakes do happen, sure), it doesn't always look good when you put little kids on the pavement like that in this climate of ours, where everyone has an itchy finger on their smart phones ready to film.
But anyhow, the department already apologized. The mother has already gotten an attorney.
Police in Aurora, Colorado, detained and handcuffed a Black mother and four children at gunpoint Sunday after mistakenly identifying the SUV she was driving as a stolen motorcycle.
Video of the incident shared by witness Jenni Wurtz shows Brittany Gilliam and four children, including her sister, two nieces and 6-year-old daughter, lying face down on the asphalt in a strip mall parking lot, surrounded by officers.
Aurora had a significant public relations problem before this even happened. The city just appointed a new permanent police chief. Hopeful that she can help turn things around.
That doesn't happen to a white family. That's just the truth.
I think the mistaken identity of the stolen vehicle could happen to anyone, but would a white family or family of another race be forcibly put on the ground? Probably not. Especially the little girl. Can’t believe the officer made the girl lay down like that. SMH.
That happens all the time in the hood. Most blacks shut up and take it cause you have no "rights" when you are face down on the pavement. Those cops just created a new gen of black kids who will hate cops.
I think the mistaken identity of the stolen vehicle could happen to anyone, but would a white family or family of another race be forcibly put on the ground? Probably not. Especially the little girl. Can’t believe the officer made the girl lay down like that. SMH.
Now I will say this as I heard racial bias explained in this manner...
this person said it's like in school when you most of the desks were right handed desks - the left handed students had to figure out how to manipulate their arm to use the desk. The desk manufacturers did not set out to discriminate against the left handed kids - they catered to the fact the most kids were right handed.
I don't want to think these cops were motivated to stick it to this family strictly for racial purposes - but it's just what has been.
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