Africa Speaks Reasoning Forum

By Abby Zimet, staff writer
Friday, October 10, 2014

For everything you need to know about the justice (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/10/08/foxhall-police-encounter-caught-on-video-and-the-interaction-is-fascinating/) (sic) system in America, a brief impromptu video (http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/10/10/%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4uy1hnUQQ) wherein Jody Westby, a take-no-prisoners white attorney, comes to the aid of Dennis Stucky, an older, disabled, black handyman who gets stopped by cops for walking while black in an uber-fancy D.C. neighborhood. Check out Westby's imperious don't-give-me-this-crap tone when she sternly tells the cops to back off - and then imagine the bloody scenario if she was a black male (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/10/3578494/teen-records-traffic-stop/) - a group, says a new study, 21 times more likely (http://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white) to be shot dead by police than their white counterparts.

    “Just because he’s black, it doesn’t mean he’s here to rob a house,” bristles Westby. "This is wrong. Now please leave our neighborhood."

D.C. police investigating burglary stop man - LoneWolf Sager (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4uy1hnUQQ#)

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/10/10/wrong-race-and-class-and-unassailable-privilege (http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/10/10/wrong-race-and-class-and-unassailable-privilege)