An 8-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were pulled over at gunpoint by multiple Sacramento police officers on their way to football practice.
An 8-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were pulled over at gunpoint by multiple Sacramento police officers on their way to football practice.
Yes. It’s called adultification, and it’s a common example of unconscious bias in policing.
The Adultification of Black Children
‘They saw me as calculating, not a child’: how adultification leads to black children being treated as criminals