Nawww, profiling doesn't work. Why would anyone ever think it does?
Well, here’s the problem, the cop detained a suspect that fit the description of the suspect.
You just can’t do stuff like that.
So, Mr. Bowel, simply tell your son to STOP LOOKING LIKE A CRIMINAL.
No wait - that doesn't make any sense.
How about this... thin-skinned fathers of young black men should CONDEMN black violence and crime. Why? Because when blacks stop acting like the most criminal minority in the history of the country, people will STOP seeing them that way... and that includes how their sons are seen.
I get it. This tells me something about the skin tone of the student. A lightskinned person would not consider his sacred civil rights violated by a policeman stopping him.
I know someone who’s son had this happen to him on a different campus. The kicker is that kid was in school training to be in law enforcement. Campus security was looking for a suspect and this kid looked close enough that they dragged him out of his car, threw him to the ground and pointed guns at him. Since he was a white kid then I guess you couldn’t call it racist.
I would not expect or want the cops to stop a person just because he is black as the perp was described any more than they should be stopping white guys just because the perp was described as white. They’ve got to have more than that. It doesn’t say here if they had it or not.
How else would you stop someone you thought was an armed robber?
“fit the despcription” is a line cops use when they want to stop someone
whoa...who knew ? a college student can’t be a criminal.
It’s eerie, isn’t it? I KNEW this would be Charles Blow’s progeny reading the headline and not even knowing the subject was black.
They just do it more systemically.
Nawww, profiling doesn't work. Why would anyone ever think it does?
t GUN POINT — by a Yale policeman bc he ‘fit the description’ of a suspect,’
Okay.. Exactly what is wrong with this? Nothing. He was left go when it was determined he was not the perosn. No harm no foul. Get over yourself.....
Tough crap.
I wouldn’t like it either but they are trying to determine if he was the guy they were looking for. They let him go when he wasn’t the guy. Just like ought to happen.
It can suck being innocent and being at the wrong (relative term) place at the wrong time. I’ve been there too and been accused of doing stuff I didn’t do because for example, my jacket looked like another persons’ jacket.
40 yearsago a buddy of mine and I, on foot, got stopped by a cop who bailed our of his car screaming, his gun hand on his holster, for us to get across the hood of his cop car. It seems 8 miles away a break-in was reported 10 minutes prior. The suspect match our description because, like us, he was wearing blue jeans. Like 95% of twenty-somethings as well too.
We’re both white, by the way. One doesn’t have to be black to meet idiot cops.
Decent looking kid, but, depends on how he was dressed and what he was doing.
# nytimesop-edcolumist’schildrenslivesmatter (snark)
The suspect was described as “a tall, African-American, college-aged student wearing a black jacket and a red and white hat.”
Obviously they should have been looking for a white woman.
I would be super pissed too, if this happened to my son. Since when do cops need to point guns at people who they think may have commit a burglary? Whatever happened to calling the suspect over to the patrol car for an interview? And if the kid runs away, you know you’re on the right track... I suppose if this kid had ran in fear, the cop would have shot him.
Charles McRay Blow (born August 11, 1970) is an American journalist, and the current visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
Blow grew up in Gibsland, Louisiana.[1] He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in the same state. He has worked as a graphics director and art director for the Times and National Geographic.
In April 2008, he began publishing a column in the Times, featuring charts as a form of opinion journalism. His column originally appeared biweekly on Saturdays. In May 2009 it became a weekly feature, and twice weekly in December 2012. As of May 2014, it appears every Monday and Thursday. Increasingly it is an essay in text with no chart. Blow also wrote a blog entitled "By The Numbers" for the newspaper's website which was rarely updated and essentially discontinued in 2011.[2]
Blow is a single father of three children. One of his children goes to university and his twins are in high school. They live in Brooklyn, NY.[3] In 2014 Blow came out publicly as bisexual.[4][5] (WTF??)