I don’t think we are wrong in assuming that it would have been the right thing to do. Not too long ago there was a knock on our front door, and it was a police officer with my son and his friend. They were walking home from school and thought someone was following them. They called 911 and the police officer brought them home.
I thought that maybe Treyvon could have done the same thing. I wonder how much a culturally-motivated distrust of law enforcement prevented him from doing that.
“I wonder how much a culturally-motivated distrust of law enforcement prevented him from doing that.”
True. I also wonder what sort of criminal behavior he might have been trying to hide and didn’t want questions asked?
My son was in DC last week. He observed Black “pan-handlers” (wearing hoodies, imagine that) that would by-pass well-dressed Black people and only approached White people. He and his (Black) friend observed this when sitting in a restaurant window seat. Then when they left, they left separately to test the observation and, indeed, they did not approach his friend but approached my son.
They were aggressive and threatening in their “request” for cash. Even demanded his debit card when my son said he didn’t have cash, and when refused the thugs began to holler all sorts of racial slurs, apparently trying intimidate my son into “giving” up his cash/card.
A “soft” robbery attempt, as I am sure the thugs saw my son a some sort of “rich” white-boy that goes to Georgetown and easily scared, when in fact, he is a rather young-looking Border Patrol Agent and not intimidated, and he verbally pushed back.