I Am Sick of This Bullshit!

So yet another, doing something in America while black, leading to abuse of black/brown folk by police incident is in the news.  This time, it was being black while being a real estate agent.  What you need to know if you don't know, is the cops as a seeming standard procedure, cuffed the black man and his son on mere suspicion of attempted burglary.  Or to get the my real point . . .  in a blatant abuse of discretion, and power, and authority, the police cuffed the black man and his son on mere suspicion of being suspicious.  And being black while being suspicious.

Now I first read about this story  earlier today.  And decided to pass.  I wrote it off as yet more stomach churning shit that honestly makes me want to wish a vicious, two week case of diarrhea on anyone who opposes CRT, 1619 Project, BLM, defund the police, never mind supporting the even more obvious white supremacist bullshit.  But then I went to a certain blogger's page.

Let's mine the comments the blogger deliberately chose to publish on her page:

"There’s something wrong with this story. I don’t believe it. Stories like this rarely turn out to be true."

(Me:  based on what? Your love  of  conspiracy theories?)

"Maybe they thought it was Professor Gates."

(Me:  I am gonna  call that flat out, across the line, white supremacist shit. Yeah, he was trying to be funny.  That makes it a greater offense in my book.)

"Why is the WaPo trying to drive fear and division by twisting this incident into something it's not?"

(Me: cops abusing their power is bad. If they are being white supremacist during?  That makes it worse.  And f you really think the reporting of actual police abuses is what is dividing America, ya should have traveled with Tucker Carlson to Hungary, a genuine dictatorship, and stayed the fuck there. )

And now to the real important part, that just follows what I said above:

" I don't like that either, but the cops do handcuff and detain people, until they figure out who's who and what's what, all the time. It's what they're trained to do. It's department policy in many places. They don't just do it to black people. It's their SOP. Maybe it shouldn't be, but that's a separate issue."  

"It was clearly a misunderstanding." 

Me:  This motherfucker sort of gets it, but he doesn't seem to be committed to the idea that the cops were wrong no matter the color of the irrationally and as it turns out, wrongfully  handcuffed people.  Motherfucker, make up ya damn mind!  Either it is as you say first, SOP, or it is a mistake.  A policy of handcuffing persons of interest before there is actual probable cause to consider them a suspect, is not a misunderstanding.  It is a pattern of abuse, motherfucker!

So I am gong to cut this short and point out, even if redundantly, there was fault here never mind the issue of white supremacy.  Two further points, before I go take a walk, and vent my bad vibes out to the cosmos.  

One:  "The use of handcuffs is a use of restraint and force, subject to the constitutional objective reasonableness standard of the Fourth Amendment."  And Two: the blogger at issue is a retired Con. Law professor. What the fuck with publishing this kind of shit, and not bothering to comment, as like the quote I just used in my next to previous sentence?

It was a wasted chance to enlighten her hive on 4th Amendment law.  And all she had to do was copy paste, like I just did.