[b]-One African-American man in his 50s was stopped 30 times in less than four years; none of the stops resulted in a citation or criminal charge[/b]
Can we put this argument to bed now? As it turns out, systemic racism in policing was and still is a thing.
[i][b]***edit:[/b]since none of you could be bothered to read the actual article or the report and keep focusing on the 1 excerpt out of the report I provided as if that and only that was the basis of the report here are more excerpts:
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[b]- Officers "publicly strip-searched a woman following a routine traffic stop for a missing headlight." They even searched the woman's anal cavity. They found nothing.[/b]
[b]- A black officer with a reputation for speaking out over misconduct was harassed by a supervisor, who placed signs warning him to “stay in your lane” and “mind your own business” on his desk. [/b]
[b]- An officer decided not to report a colleague for planting drugs because he feared retaliation.[/b]
[b]- The Justice Department found that officers had been accused more than 60 times of using the word “n****r,” but the Baltimore Police Department didn’t classify the language as a racial slur.[/b]
**The full report is available for download here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/09/us/document-Baltimore-P-D-Findings-Report-FINAL.html
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So the first link to cnn is essentially useless because they just reported on it and never linked the research, so it's just words. I am unable to see the second document as I'm out of available space, so for the time being I'm going to remain skeptical, although you do raise an interesting case. That being said, I don't think associating with BLM is a very good idea, as many members are blatant racists, wanting segregation and call for killing cops. ALM is probably a more effective movement to associate with, as it is the group that is the most humanitarian. If you can provide a link that isn't download that would be appreciated, and thank you for reading this far I know this is a long post.