Hey Johnny re-read his post, he was talking about Michael Brown. I thought the same thing too til I re-read it
Don't care who you talk about.
If you CONFRONT any human you will get fight or flight response.
It's the way we're wired.
/johnny
/johnny
Indeed - poor writing on my part. Too many pronouns.
With regard to "getting tense and ready to fight" when spoken to by an LEO, if the complaint is valid (like "don't walk in the road") I'd feel only shame and guilt. It would never occur to me to fight anyone, be it a neighbor or an LEO, because they pointed out a fault in my behavior. It's not even a debatable fault; many dogs died to prove that walking in the street is dangerous. (A debatable fault would be, for example, smoking in an empty bus shelter - it is legally wrong (in some places,) but not actually harmful to anyone.)
Fighting (or fleeing) is reserved for life-threatening situations. An LEO is one of least likely persons to kill someone - on par with a schoolgirl, perhaps :-) When that happens, it's national news.