Quote Originally Posted by Denzark View Post
If I on the flip side looked at a Los Angeles gang member of non-white ethnicity and automatically assumed murderous criminal, you would rightly be excoriating me.
I doubt you'd run into many people that would excoriate you over the statement that a white/non white gang member is a murderous criminal. This is the reputation that they have intentionally built. They want to be feared as a group.

It is our duty to question those in authority because authority is power... and power corrupts. That is the problem with the US now. People got too complacent.. too trusting of authority figures. That's how the image of the policeman changed from the honest beat cop to the heavily armed thug that throws a flash bang into a baby's crib during a no knock search warrant. If police officers didn't want people to view them like that, they should not have condoned the behavior.