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TexasProgresive

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12. The deputy did exactly what he should've done.
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 12:23 PM
Dec 2014

He had to respond to the 911 call. Reading a transcript of the conversation between the deputy and Mr. McKean the deputy was able to defuse Mr. McKean's anger and fear at being questioned. The only thing I think the S.O. could've done differently is maybe dispatch a black deputy. But that's no guarantee the deputy would have been as capable as this one.

We are all including Mr. McKean over sensitized to encounters between white cops and black people, but I don't think this incident was handled badly by the deputy.

http://patch.com/michigan/bloomfield-mi/watch-michigan-deputy-detains-black-man-walking-hands-pockets

How did they respond? What's your take on how they responded? Scuba Dec 2014 #1
Seeing the whole clip and not just a partial clip TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #5
How would a Texas LEO have handled that? JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #2
Have no idea TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #10
how about LAPD? or Portland LEO? snooper2 Dec 2014 #22
n/t JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #25
By stopping by, engaging the citizen in conversation, then moving on. randome Dec 2014 #3
Exactly. nt msanthrope Dec 2014 #20
I think get what you are saying. Kingofalldems Dec 2014 #4
I am not beating around the bush TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #7
A good start would be forcing police officers JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #11
Agree with that. TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #14
As you said upthread - you aren't black JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #28
Exactly. HappyMe Dec 2014 #21
I'm white and was questioned for about 20 minutes by cops for a similar issue mythology Dec 2014 #38
I don't understand what she is saying . . . JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #8
even then marym625 Dec 2014 #17
Having watched the guy walking home marym625 Dec 2014 #6
No, I don't have a "kink" TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #9
That's too bad marym625 Dec 2014 #13
See link in post 6 TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #16
"Kink is using a feather: perversion is using the entire chicken." riqster Dec 2014 #35
Match.com is a more appropriate venue for that question! msanthrope Dec 2014 #19
hehe TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #23
I won't comment marym625 Dec 2014 #26
You mean JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #27
You know me so well marym625 Dec 2014 #31
The deputy did exactly what he should've done. TexasProgresive Dec 2014 #12
No 911 recording marym625 Dec 2014 #33
The recording was on CNN. TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #36
I found it marym625 Dec 2014 #37
I've been known to do the exact same thing myself... MrScorpio Dec 2014 #15
except he said marym625 Dec 2014 #18
Add it to the List of Innocent Things. HappyMe Dec 2014 #24
OMFD that's hilarious! marym625 Dec 2014 #30
Almost sounds like the movie Minority Report, except there was no crime that was being still_one Dec 2014 #29
There must be more to the story. I bet he had a bag of Skittles. yellowcanine Dec 2014 #32
Since the issue is that the police hassled this guy for no reason, maybe the proper hughee99 Dec 2014 #34
Probably 20-30% of the calls for service when I was a deputy were that kind of BS Lee-Lee Dec 2014 #39
An interview with the Black man is a bit different than what the 911 caller Malraiders Dec 2014 #40
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