I’m just sayin’. It’s how our cops roll.

That guy is 60 years old?

My god he looks half that.

I know black guys age very well, but frankly this looks more like the picture of Dorian Gray than evolutionary good fortune and clean living.

I’m over 20 years his junior and look like his Dad..except white.

AS for racism, yeah sure there was probably a bit, but as soon as some one shouts GUN cops tewnd to spring into action regardless.

If they hadn’t responded to a gun warning they’d be in a lot of trouble.

Better to draw down on a friendly than be thought a NON racist, but in the past tense.

Also there is the unpleasent truth that a disproprtionate amount of crime is perpetrated by black men.

It’s no doubt a symptom of a more fundamental inequality and deeper seated racism but if you were a copper on the street I think that you’d no longer care about such niceties regardless of whether you were black or white.

Hell no one is perfect, and we tend to get less so when some we feel our lives are threatened.

This all reminds me of the story told me by an Ontario Provincial Police officer about a new style of car being presented to the media by the Commissioner. An officer drove it all the way to the photo-op, but was not allowed to deliver it to the Commissioner and have his 15 minutes of fame because he was white. At the end of his drive, he handed the keys over to a black officer, who then drove it the last 100 feet to the photo-op. Racism cuts both ways.

The part of the article on Neatorama here isn’t complete.
There was more than one take about what happened, and only the black man’s point of view was listed on neatorama. Here’s what the two white cops had to say.

“When one officer spotted Zeigler’s service weapon through the rolled-down window, he yelled “Gun!” according to sources who have spoken with the officers.

Both cops raised their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car, sources said.

Instead of saying he was an armed member of the NYPD, Zeigler shouted, “Don’t you know who I am?” the sources said.

When one cop reached over to check the identification badge around Zeigler’s neck, the chief pushed him away, sources said.

Only then did Zeigler tell the two officers his name and rank, those sources said.”

Obviously, one of the stories has to be wrong.