Not Free to Go. From [HERE] On Thursday, several white plainclothes U.S. Park Police officers handcuffed and detained three African American teenagers for selling water on the National Mall without a license. Photos of the detention quickly spread across social media, provoking outrage among some who viewed the move as inappropriate and racially-motivated.
On Friday, D.C. councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who chairs the council’s public safety committee, strongly condemned the Park Police’s action in a letter.
“While I understand the need to maintain consistency in permitted actions, I do not understand why the enforcement cannot take place with uniformed personnel and actions less severe than handcuffing individuals suspected of the sales,” Allen wrote. “I can’t help but think how the reaction by these same officers might have varied if different children had set up a quaint hand-painted lemonade stand in the same spot.”
According to the Washington Post, the teens were given a verbal warning and released without charges.
According to Sgt. Anna Rose of the U.S. Park Police, the teens were handcuffed “for the safety of the officers and of the individuals.”
ThinkProgress notes that the “fear defense” has been widely employed by police in a number of police brutality cases, where police have injured or shot and killed black men and women. Lol. It has been widely used for centuries. Think George Zimmerman and check out Dr. Welsing's Color Confrontation Theory.
[In Nazi Germany , as part of the destruction process of the Jews, the Nazi's created an elaborate system of movement restrictions and identification measures that included personal Jew identification cards, passports marked with a J, assignment of names and the outward marking of persons with a yellow star. Jews were only allowed to appear in public when wearing the Jewish star. [MORE] In a white supremacy system there is no need for any such star - you are targeted by skin color]