I’m not offended!

[David Lockmiller]

(07-07-2019 03:35 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(07-07-2019 07:15 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Most of my patients are African-Americans. I can tell you that they believe it is true.

Bill - I am quite sure that your patients do feel that way, just as many citizens of other races suspect police bigotry. But are their beliefs based on personal experience or on what they learn from various types of media or neighborhood gossip? I am not trying to pretend that there is no wrong doing on the part of some police; I just question if it is as wide-spread as what folks are led to believe.

“Black GOP Senator Talks About Being Pulled Over By Police 7 Times In One Year”

HuffPost 07/13/2016

“This is a situation that happens all across the country,” Sen. Tim Scott said, “whether we want to recognize it or not.”

In the course of one year as an elected official, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was pulled over seven times by law enforcement. Another time, a Capitol Police officer demanded that Scott show him his ID because the special pin on Scott’s suit jacket ― a pin assigned to United States senators ― evidently wasn’t enough.

Scott shared these stories and more Wednesday evening during a roughly 18-minute speech on the Senate floor. He is the only black senator in the Republican conference, and one of just two in the upper chamber.

“There is a deep divide between the black community and law enforcement ― a trust gap,” Scott said. “We cannot ignore these issues. Because while so many officers do good ― and we should be very thankful in support of all those officers that do good ― some simply do not. I’ve experienced it myself.”

Scott said he chose to talk about his encounters with police, experiences that left him feeling humiliated and “very scared,” because he’s heard people trying to paint Philando Castile, who was shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota, and Walter Scott ― a black man who was killed by a police officer in South Carolina last year while running away ― as criminals.