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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15032962
Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text “you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?” Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.
A gram of weed would get you a citation at most in SF back then, but most likely some “get that high school shit out of here” comment.
Source: I lived in SF back then and had friends who had nearly that exact experience.
What was their skin color?
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Oh OK I’m suppose to just ignore the statistically relevant disproportionate treatment of black people in the injustice system.
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Put what back in the deck? What does that mean?
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That is sadly a very valid question for SF cops at that time.
https://www.kqed.org/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation
This didn’t come out until several years later, but I doubt racism in the force just suddenly popped up.