africans in america are not surprised by this story. it is what we experience on many levels frequently. but we have a problem. racism will live forever.
I was born in Ukraine and lived in Oregon the first 8 yrs. there was the case when an older men from Ukraine who was new to this country and didn't speak much English was stopped by the police. This Ukrainian man gets out of the car and walks toward police with his hands up, because that's what you do in Ukraine. Well, police officer was giving him some other instructions, but this man couldn't understand. the police officer shot him in his knee...He had to be hospitalised and I am not sure if he ver fully recovered.
Oh, what a story man! And this is so recent, so fresh... I mean, the '90s are History's last week, right? We didn't have Black Lives Matter yet, and we're not here to politize the whole thing but, in this particular case, as in many, many others, those snap judgments shows us a clear pattern of prejudice!
No mistakes seem to have been made in judgment in this case First I want to be clear, I'm an avid supporter or "Black lives matter" and like movements and have grave concern about the state of police interactions that keep making the news ~ incidents involving people of color But here we have information these officers used in the dark, at night, a lot of info, that would tell anyone "criminal" in this case. Place, time, behavior. The innocent young man was suspicious for where he was and when - midnight in a doorway, and was also for how he was acting: pulling his head in and out looking right and left, and ducking back in the shadows, described as the same m.o. of a burglar lookout described in the speaker's book. Black shinny object being pulled out? Who wouldn't think that would be a gun, especially given all the other lead-up factors listed in the book. I don't even get it: what is a "black shiny wallet? Why does an officer jump backwards likes he's hit and start spraying bullets all over, that's just weird; he literally dramatizedto his colleague: "I'm hit", what's up with that. He literally dramatized according to the story told here : look I'm hit and falling backwards and is making firing sounds in the dark - by firing his gun - as he does this. What's his partner supposed to think? I'm not familiar with the case, I didn't follow it, I have only what's here and in the book. But in this case, it appears, this poor innocent young man, on this night looked like a duck, sounded like a duck (he gave no reply to officer's orders were mentioned in the book), acted like a duck, was basically where you might find a duck (or a criminal, where you might find a criminal in the eyes of the patrol men, ducking in and out of a dark vestibule on a weekday midnght on and otherwise abandon street). He even wore a duck costume, he fit the description of a suspect is mentioned in the book.
Malcolm Gladwell is a national treasure. He has the ability to tell a story like this that both makes you cry, and make you think, at the same time.
No he told a lie in the video justifying racism
Since Diallo died, I assume this is all based on the account of the cops who shot him?
sad, powerful story
Ended abruptly. I was enjoying it while it lasted
Me too!!
from 2005 til 2015--dealing with the same problems
Then in came 2020...(this is 6 months in, protests among pandemic)
Really interesting. Nice clip.
africans in america are not surprised by this story. it is what we experience on many levels frequently. but we have a problem. racism will live forever.
Hmm, how many times did several trained officers need to shoot before realizing there was no fire coming back at them?
I was born in Ukraine and lived in Oregon the first 8 yrs. there was the case when an older men from Ukraine who was new to this country and didn't speak much English was stopped by the police. This Ukrainian man gets out of the car and walks toward police with his hands up, because that's what you do in Ukraine.
Well, police officer was giving him some other instructions, but this man couldn't understand. the police officer shot him in his knee...He had to be hospitalised and I am not sure if he ver fully recovered.
Oh, what a story man! And this is so recent, so fresh... I mean, the '90s are History's last week, right? We didn't have Black Lives Matter yet, and we're not here to politize the whole thing but, in this particular case, as in many, many others, those snap judgments shows us a clear pattern of prejudice!
“The 90s are history’s last week” great phrase
This sounds alot like the same story and theme hes touching on in his new book. In this story it was dialo, now its Sandra Bland.
true
same issues still very prevalent unfortunately
Haircut!
No mistakes seem to have been made in judgment in this case
First I want to be clear, I'm an avid supporter or "Black lives matter" and like movements and have grave concern about the state of police interactions that keep making the news ~ incidents involving people of color
But here we have information these officers used in the dark, at night, a lot of info, that would tell anyone "criminal" in this case. Place, time, behavior.
The innocent young man was suspicious for where he was and when - midnight in a doorway, and was also for how he was acting: pulling his head in and out looking right and left, and ducking back in the shadows, described as the same m.o. of a burglar lookout described in the speaker's book.
Black shinny object being pulled out? Who wouldn't think that would be a gun, especially given all the other lead-up factors listed in the book. I don't even get it: what is a "black shiny wallet? Why does an officer jump backwards likes he's hit and start spraying bullets all over, that's just weird; he literally dramatizedto his colleague: "I'm hit", what's up with that. He literally dramatized according to the story told here : look I'm hit and falling backwards and is making firing sounds in the dark - by firing his gun - as he does this. What's his partner supposed to think?
I'm not familiar with the case, I didn't follow it, I have only what's here and in the book. But in this case, it appears, this poor innocent young man, on this night looked like a duck, sounded like a duck (he gave no reply to officer's orders were mentioned in the book), acted like a duck, was basically where you might find a duck (or a criminal, where you might find a criminal in the eyes of the patrol men, ducking in and out of a dark vestibule on a weekday midnght on and otherwise abandon street). He even wore a duck costume, he fit the description of a suspect is mentioned in the book.
Miss judgment or Racial profiling 🤔
People actually thought it is a good book 😂😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏👍👍.