Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Really? I find it odd that you accept a politician lying about racial profiling because it brings "public attention" to the issue. It certainly does that, but not the good kind of attention. It makes people wonder how many cases of racial profiling are actually just people playing the race card. It results in people losing confidence in either the police or politicians, depending on which side of the fence you sit on.

I don't see how this is remotely positive.
I don't think what she did (assuming it wasn't a doctored video you found, but a real representation of what happened) was acceptable if she is just being a black Karen. OTOH, I don't think it's ok for cops to harass people for allegedly being from out of town regardless of who is in the car.

However, this one incident isn't going to change anything about how anyone looks at racism in the police force. The people who are already in favour of BLM will either never hear about the alleged lying, or will disbelieve or otherwise not take it as a serious problem. Just like people in favour of Brexit discount all the lying that went into that campaign. Conversely, the people who are on the cops' side will continue to make whatever excuses or distortions are needed in order to maintain the status quo. Like you with your outrage that a politician was caught lying, as if they don't all lie all the time anyways.