I think that the discussion of the motivation of the cop loses sight that we are still talking about the motivation as to why he overstepped his boundaries.
In any case, as to the discussion of whether the cop was racist or not, I don't know, and neither do any of you calling the professor racist.
But there is an easy experiment that can help us if we really want to determine that:
The history of the Cambridge police is a matter of public record, so we can check how many times they've been accused of racial profiling and so on. From what I gather, this is far from the first time they've been accused of such.
Similarly, the professor we are talking about is a public figure who has published extensively and made quite a few documentaries on the subject of race. If he has a history of assuming racism on part of others, of wrongly accusing others of racism, it should be easy enough to establish. Can anyone point to such an occasion?
And I find the argument of "Im white, police are assholes to me too" utterly unpersuasive. And the statistics and the anecdotal information are out there to show that yes, there is a substantial difference in how the police treat people of either race.
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Originally Posted by shakran
If as the cops claim he was screaming and shouting at them, then he was breaking the law.
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Which law, specifically? And this is not to mention the fact that he was inside his home, and was asked outside by the cop.