I think the issue that many people have is the # of times they encounter the police. And the number of times they're doing nothing and are grabbed, frisked, detailed, questioned when they've dont nothing wrong - because they're young, because of their look, etc. As a skinny white kid in Ohio, me and my friends were stopped and questioned by the police quite a few times from age 10 to 14 (when I moved away) - it had nothing to do with race. It was poor kid walking in the projects, and cops just *fishing* for anything incriminating, any info they could get about whatever, etc. Just basic stop/shakedown/questioning and on their way in 5 minutes. It happened a lot.
As an adult, if the cops try this, we grow tired of this shit and we call ACLU, get a lawyer, etc. Some people squirm instead. Some people fight.
There is a point - I'm not saying any of these men were there, but the point exists - when law abiding citizens tell abusive police to fck off. It happens at some point, and rightfully so. I'm not saying Garner was justified to squirm. I'm saying there are points in life where you do tell a cop to piss off, if they're violating rights or breaking law.
240, the way you have been going off (and on) on here lately. Maybe the cops were trying to frisk you for a brain.
As you were a teacher, you probably have noticed that the kids who always attracted the teacher's attention negatively, and always said that they were not doing anything wrong, and constantly in trouble or in the wrong place at the wrong time, generally were up to something---their behavior. So, have you ever thought that was why the cops were onto you as a kid? And that everybody is picking on them. And usually those people are in positions of authority? And that these kids usually have poor relationships with the adults in their family---father, mother, teachers, etc.
You tend to latch onto things and the thing goes into a rabbit hole of twists and turns and it turns into a "maybe I see this, and maybe that" to the point that a whole brand new "narrative" comes about.
Sometimes, there are no alternate universe theories, no 10 ways of telling a story, no convoluted truth, in which we need to weave and unweave something to make it more (or less) tangible.
