You're grasping, Joe. Excusing themselves from the scene of minor crimes is not remotely the same thing as avoiding conflict. I'm talking about the kind of aggressivee "eyeballing" and petty provocation that black males between the ages of. what, maybe 8 and 50?. are confronted with all the time. It's endemic to the culture of policing in America, precisely because of the history and dynamics of class and race and policing in America - things that you obviously recognise, but don't seem to have the theoretical grounding to apply usefully in interpreting actual events and situations. So you end up invoking "evidence" that's off-point, and lashing out defensively about old white men and religion. Maybe lose a bit of the attitude.
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Perhaps Joseph should read the crime fiction of Walter Mosely!
Carrol