Why do you think a candy bar in a black man's hand is considered a gun in usa?

[pizzalovershouse]

Cuz of bad cops

Not enough black cops partnered with a white cop

Cops love whites only

They assume black guys are mentally ill

Cuz they come from the ghetto

Cuz they go by saticts

They assume all black kids have guns so do black adukt males

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This is about police an the way they treat black guys in USA

[TroyDT2]

Of course not. But the picture tells us nothing about a specific situation or what led up to it. It tells us nothing statistically about whether or not the individual was reported to be violent or carrying a firearm. Nor of the lighting conditions. Maybe it was clear as day and the cop was a lazy, fat-assed loser who did not feel like chasing an alleged culprit, or maybe it was far more complex.

[pizzalovershouse]

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[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Cuz of bad cops

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO:)

[menina]

I guess it's because they assume that all black men in the US are violent, and they all carry guns.

[menina]

Thanks for the MHO.

[pizzalovershouse]

Awelcome

[DryGermanGuy]

Because in some hands it should be considered a gun! Haven’t you seen the movie Hancock? 😮🤡

[pizzalovershouse]

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[msc545]

Cops always need an excuse to kill a black guy and almost always need an excuse to kill anyone for that matter

[Anonymous]

You’re kind of an idiot, aren’t you?

[pizzalovershouse]

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[NewsReader]

Who says that?

[Soteris]

There has been a long list of self defense claims by people that claims that they thought the victim was armed with a gun when in reality they just had something such as a candy bar. This is also a common excuse among police officers when they shoot civilians. These victims almost always tends to be black to my knowledge.

I have heard of a police shooting a kid in a store who he thought was armed when it was a toy. A teenager holding a hairbrush in New York shot 20 times by police, 1999 in New York a guy was shot at 41 times for reaching for his wallet and police thinking it was a gun, 2001 Timothy Thomas was pulling up his pants while running from the cops and they shot him, 1997 Andre Burgess shot in the leg after reaching for a candy in his pocket by undercover police thinking he had a gun.

Basically, there is a long and well established trend of people, often police, shooting unarmed victims thinking they were armed when they were not. Oftentimes what they actually had was a candy bar and very often these victims are black.

[AndrésC64]

It's not. Your premise is faulty.

[MrTaboo]

None of the above.