After A Traffic Stop, Teen Was 'Almost Another Dead Black Male'
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https://www.facebook.com/StoryCorps/videos/vb.6024998621/10154305580748622/?type=2&theater
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After A Traffic Stop, Teen Was 'Almost Another Dead Black Male'
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains graphic descriptions and offensive language.
Alex Landau, who is African-American, was adopted by a white couple as a child and grew up in largely white, middle-class suburbs of Denver.
Still, "we never talked about race growing up," Landau tells his mother, Patsy Hathaway, on a visit to StoryCorps. "I just don't think that was ever a conversation."
"I thought that love would conquer all and skin color really didn't matter," Hathaway says. "I had to learn the really hard way when they almost killed you."
That was in 2009, when Landau, then a college student, was stopped by Denver police officers and severely beaten.
Landau was 19 at the time, driving around Denver with a friend in the passenger seat. He noticed red and blue lights behind him. The officer who pulled him over "explained I had made an illegal left turn, and to step out of the car," Landau says.
"So I get out of the car first," he says. "And then he goes around to the passenger side and pulls my friend Addison out of the car. ... Addison is white, and he had some weed in his coat pocket. So he gets placed in handcuffs."
More: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/15/340419821/after-a-traffic-stop-teen-was-almost-another-dead-black-male
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Alex came home alive. He was one of the lucky ones, only 45 stiches to close the wounds on his face. He bears the scars and I am sure they run deep.
No More!
FYI there is a small delay at the first link it takes you to the FB page the vid is there, then goes to the video page..
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on millions of people of colour in the USA. It must just been so damaging to the point of a never-quite-gone stress point that just wears you down bit by grinding bit. I fervently hope some permanent good and rectification will come come of all this.
Hugz,
Anti
