Yup. As a Canadian I was visiting TX many years ago and was dumbfounded when I saw a cop car roll past me, stop and then reverse… All so they could pace beside a black man walking on the sidewalk. He was wearing a nice suit and carrying a briefcase, clearly walking home from work. Racist assholes.
When I was working on a TV set in a not great part of Brooklyn they used to have us production assistants walk to the subway together when leaving for the night. It kept a black member of our crew safe when NYPD decided to pace us and single him out for harassment for a whole city block.
Fancy speak for “walking while black”
Yup. As a Canadian I was visiting TX many years ago and was dumbfounded when I saw a cop car roll past me, stop and then reverse… All so they could pace beside a black man walking on the sidewalk. He was wearing a nice suit and carrying a briefcase, clearly walking home from work. Racist assholes.
When I was working on a TV set in a not great part of Brooklyn they used to have us production assistants walk to the subway together when leaving for the night. It kept a black member of our crew safe when NYPD decided to pace us and single him out for harassment for a whole city block.
😕 how horrible. I’m glad you all were there for him, it’s shameful though that our society as a whole still cares about skin colour 💔