It's waiting for you at the Detroit Free Press:
Opinion: I hesitated to call police when white woman needed my help
The title really sets the stage doesn't it? As you might guess, the op-ed writer is not-White. You can go read the whole emotive thing, but here's the highlights:
He gets a knock on his door and a Black male is helping a White lady clearly in distress and lacking mental capacity.
He hesitates because he's Black and then the virtue signalling and victimhood begins, but the two guys do decide to call the police for assistance.
So then the police arrive:
While we wait, the jogger points out that it's not dark yet. That's a good thing, he says. Daylight is on our side. . . .
two uniformed officers — a young Black female and a male of Arab descent — emerge from the police car. She’s smiling, and he’s not giving off any threatening vibes.
Whew! (Thanks, Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren, for your diverse department.)
He's thankful they're not white. That's not racist at all, is it?
The police arrived and no one got hurt and the lady in need of help was helped. Funny how that works right? That's actually exactly how it works in over 99.999% of the time in such interactions with police.
But it gets better:
I’m happy we were there to help, and relieved that Linda is headed back to her worried husband. But I'm also saddened at what all these police shootings have done to us.
The jogger and I both recognized Linda's vulnerability, but as Black men, our first instinct was to protect ourselves. We were eager to help, but we understood that we might be vulnerable, too. We didn't want anybody to die.
We gotta fix this.
Well he could fix this by working on his self-perspective and understand that he's been lied to. He could work on it by understanding that in fact, if he's not committing a crime and not resisting arrest, nor attacking police, his chance of dying at police hands is pretty damn minuscule and indeed is just about zero.
In fact, the chance of anyone dying by a Police shooting is again rather impressively low, and almost zero, unless you're doing something that justifies their using deadly force - and then the odds start to tick up from zero accordingly.
He could also work to fix it by teaching Black men to stop committing crimes and then forcibly resisting arrest, and the number of police shootings of said Black male criminals will also decline dramatically.
But, that would require far too much self-reflection, and not nearly the victim hood and virtue signalling that he's selling, she he can't do that.
2 comments:
A couple of years ago I ran an analysis using Federal cause-of-death statistics. One of the things that stood out was that the age-bin with the highest death-rate due to "encounters with law enforcement/legal system" were African-American men in the age group 31-to-35 years of age.
That seemed ancient for the popular narrative but makes a lot more sense if we are talking about people who were convicted of two-prior felonies. At that point, what do they have to lose?
The information hiding in the shadows is that you have to either be very boneheaded, very unlucky or push REALLY HARD to get yourself killed during an encounter with the legal system. Since 16-to-25 year-olds tend to be exceptionally boneheaded and unlucky, the fact that they are not the leading age-bin tells us that pushing REALLY HARD to get killed is the dominant cause.
They could also stop killing each other.
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