Recent police shooting in US: Cop shot black man.
Now, the wife/girlfriend of the man was in the car when he was shot and instantly began livestreaming to facebook, telling the camera her husband/BF was just shot by a cop after he announced that there's a licenced firearm in the car before reaching down.
Put yourself in the cop's point of view. You've pulled someone over and they say that they have a gun in the car, then reach down (ie move the hand out of sight). A logical on-the-spot thought would have been "He's reaching for a gun. Do what I'm trained to do."
There's a media shit-storm over it now. Everyone is quick to call racism. Headlines are always 'Cop shoots Black man' and not 'Person believed to be reaching for firearm shot; actually reaching for wallet.' No media shitstorm happens if a black cop shoots a white man.
Call me racist, call me bigoted if you want. If someone says they have a gun, then makes a movement that could be taken for reaching for a gun with no announcement otherwise, then it's their own stupidity as to why they get shot. No matter how racist someone is, I do not believe that they would knowingly risk their career to kill one black man. If you wanted to make a statement against black people, killing BOTH blacks in the car would have been a bigger message than just one.
It's this reason why I thing racism has kinda been reversed. Sure black people are still a minority in many things, but it's only ever white people who get in trouble over racism.
That's my WTF.