[mrmeyer]

Honestly, had the arresting officer been black with the same end result would we have even heard anything about this? The news sources that would have left the ethnicity out had the officer been black just to perpetuate a negative stereotype and drive a wedge between black folks and the police. From the quotes I've read from the home owner, it sounds as if he had an axe to grind.

This story reminds me of this quote: There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. - Booker T. Washington.

[AUJenn]

Wow, amazing quote. You’d think he would have been talking specifically about Sharpton, Jackson, etc. And this was decades ago...