05/09/2021 If you’re white, you know the drill. The police car pulls you over. An officer comes up to your door and asks: “Do you know why I stopped you?” Perhaps you answer the question. Perhaps you don’t. The officer will probably then ask for your driver’s license, adding, “please take the license out of
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If You Tolerate It, You Own It
On the importance of speaking up when we see or hear something wrong. © 2021 Michael Palmer PDF copy of this post. (This is an excerpt from Don’t Blame the Cops, a book in progress.) On his first night as a police officer at the 77th Los Angeles Precinct in the early 60’s , Frank M.
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