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US police have prior form for firing squads when it comes to the mentally-disabled/emotionally-disturbed/homeless. I’ve seen a few shocking videos over the years of them ‘disarming’ the homeless and/or mentally-disturbed. Some of the victims had shopping bags on them, others brandishing a penknife in fear for their life*
*Milton Hall. He was 49 and they fired near as many bullets to make sure he was killed. Cops all walked away scot-free IIRC
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2017/07/milton_hall_discussion_focused.html
You have to wonder if a US senator or chief of police (or wealthy soccer-mom or celebrity) were to have a similar break-down/lose his or her marbles and brandish a penknife in a car-park... would the same death-squad approach be used?
Is that a video of a man being shot dead?
Yes. Certainly looked like that was the outcome.
Basically a state sanctioned death squad in action.
It was a vid of a chap who had been reported for having a firearm in a motel room.He did exactly as was instructed(crawling on the floor towards the officers) but was shot anyway.I played it for a few neighbours and friends during a party and they couldn't believe it.Chap was murdered plain and simple.
His name was Daniel Shaver and he was killed by the Mesa police if anybody wants to see how outrageously american police can behave.The officer was fired after being cleared in court and re-hired elsewhere.
Good example of how our government works, black kids twice as likely to be on free school meals as white kids
Johnson had to be humiliated into extending free school meals
consciously racist or just couldnt give a crap about the poorest?
Inkster, cheers for the YouTube vid above, I’ve since watched a few of his other videos regarding the police and he speaks a helluva lot of sense.
****s sake 🙁
Indianapolis's finest forgetting that you're supposed to grab them by the pu**y
Somafunk,
YouTube rabbit holes do throw up some gems sometimes, The Beau of the fifth column guy had me fooled for a bit, at first I thought it was some John Olver like Daily show sketch, it just seemed so well scripted. Finding out he was a journalist made sense of to all.
I loved his breakdown of NASCAR where he identified that through its origins in moonshine running and resenting where their tax dollars went Nascar was built on the idea of defunding the police!
inkster
Member
First came across this guy a year ago. Din’t know what to make of him at first. My initial thoughts were that he was a college educated Liberal Hamming it up as a ‘woke’ redneck.Turns out he’s an ex military contractor who went off the rails to become a survivalist anarchist turned journalist. Quite a character!
However, his analysis of why and how things happen in videos like the one just posted is astonishingly articulate. On another video he breaks down the Nascar / battle flag debate perfectly as well.
Posted 22 hours ago
cheers for this, been watching loads of videos of his since you posted. Guys very good, people should watch. A good rabbit hole to go down. Talks a lot of sense.
Through watching quite a few of Beau of the fifth videos i watched eisenhowers final address to the nation on the rise of the military industrial complex, quite spooky how this was being prophesied 70years ago by a republican president, it is well worth 15mins of your time to watch
I find the language used to describe the statue protectors and Millwall fans interesting, calling out racism has become more offensive than calling someone a ****. Only Boris and Humza have called them out.
https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/1273310355645702145?s=09
That Beau of the fifth stuff is surprising, though provoking and just great to listen to.
Yeah it’s a salve at times like this to have confirmation that a sensible voice of reason and thoughtful discourse can exist and thrive, 320k followers who watch a guy in his shed talk for a few minutes and get his point of view across without the need for inflammatory prose and hysterical gesticulations. We all should be a bit more “Beau” in life.
I’ve been watching a few per night starting with his 1st/oldest vid, guess I’ll be watching for a long time as he has quite a few vids uploaded.
Sat in his shed dispensing wisdom as he does, Beau of the fifth reminds me of Jack Hargreaves in his 'Out of Town' 70's TV show. (Showing your age if you get that reference) That mixed with a swig of 'Southern Comfort'
I've been following a few YouTube channels the last couple of years, (mostly music reaction channels) and the thing ive foind most interesting with the U.S. ones is that I find myself listening to voices not from NYC or L.A. but the South and the Mid West. It helps paint a far more complex picture of American society and the best channels establish a kind of empathy and trust that traditional media find hard to achieve.
It was interesting when lockdown how when streaming from home, the established broadcasters looked like the amateurs whilst the established Youtubers looked like the professionals.
Do ministers no longer get briefed on what is happening in the world, I know Raab C ****wit has form for this but for crying out loud...
but for crying out loud…
My comments exactly when he asked where did it come from... Game of Thrones.
This is just crazy......
.....the attitude of the officer is appalling.
Do ministers no longer get briefed on what is happening in the world, I know Raab C **** has form for this but for crying out loud…
Never forget, this is the man who, as Brexit secretary, was genuinely surprised to discover that as an island we were quite dependent on the channel ports for our imports. He's as thick as mince and about as emotionally intelligent as a house brick.
Even by the standards of this gang of clowns though, this is quite breathtakingly stupid
Just read this little gem at the bottom of the Guardian article
Asked whether he would take the knee to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Raab said he would not, adding: “I’d take the knee for two people: the Queen and the Mrs when I asked her to marry me.”
On the subject of his wife he added: “By the way, she disputes that. I had this conversation with her last night. I’m sure I did, but we’d obviously had too much champagne at the time. But I’m certain I did.”
Jesus wept!
Rusty, that article is terrible, all the good things she's done are irrelevant. The real question is why was she stopped, everything else is guff and not helpful. It really shows what's wrong on both sides of the current racism debate.
It's difficult to tell what the real reason for stopping her in the first place was, tinted windows, at night, not feeling very plausible, but if there is any truth to it how did they know who was in the car? But probably the officers were out of order, certainly seems a weak pre-text for a stop a search. From the comments the officers were making though they may have been acting on some (incorrect) intelligence that hasn't been shared or reported. The comments about it not adding up would be racist in the extreme if they couldn't get their head around the fact that a person of colour might not actually be doing anything wrong.
However she failed to comply with a reasonable request, are all people of colour allowed to play the I don't trust the police card if they are stopped? I know there are significant issues still within parts of the police as there are with the rest of our society but we're still a long way from the States where a Black person is justifiably scared of an interaction with the police costing them their life. She apparently suffered personal trauma at some point, again how are the police supposed to know that.
Reporting incidents like this is just as polarising as the the thugs out on the streets 'protecting' statues.
Flame away, I'm sure you'll want to.
Stumpyjohn,
You just don't get it.
However she failed to comply with a reasonable request
Sure. But a good police officer is going to be curious as to why she is failing to comply. It's not unreasonable to be stopped as a motorist for any number of reasons by the cops, so her reaction would be odd, and arguably it's his job to what he can do about it.
It really shows what’s wrong on both sides of the current racism debate.
There are terrible, terrible people. On both sides.
From the comments the officers were making though they may have been acting on some (incorrect) intelligence that hasn’t been shared or reported.
Inventing bollocks, to justify the unjustifiable, you should join the police. 🙂
I was assuming that stumpyjohn was a member of the police? I know that there's a few that post on here.
It would be interesting to hear a few of their opinions given the current circumstances. Are they just keeping their heads low? I would genuinely be interested if some of them were to join the discussion.
Just catching up on Dominic Raab's Trump tribute act. It's a bit like if Thatcher had dismissed the IRA as being inspired by Star Wars. Probably worse if fact, because with his idiotic comments he's suggesting that by taking a symbolic knee black people and their supporters are in fact subjugating themselves to the very people they're resisting. Astonishing!
I imagine if you asked that woman how many times she or a member of her family had been stopped and questioned by the police for no justifiable reason they could produce a list as long as your arm.
I, and no one in my family has ever been ‘randomly’ stopped by the police and would be shocked if we were. We’re white of course.
That’s why she’s stroppy - a lifetime of harassment.
because with his idiotic comments he’s suggesting that by taking a symbolic knee black people and their supporters are in fact subjugating themselves to the very people they’re resisting.
It's truly staggering the lack of comprehension being openly exhibited from someone who is actually our foreign secretary. He seems to have not the slightest inkling of what this is all about. No understanding whatsoever. And more importantly no obvious desire to develop any understanding either.
The ignorance is absolutely breathtaking. But let's be honest, it's hardly surprising in this gang of Berxiteer numbskulls, is it? With their petty, small-minded, insular, backward-gazing, little Englander attitudes
That may well be so but as we keep hearing we (white people) don't understand that.
To call it unprofessional is one thing, racist is quite another.
X2 on irrelevant details, if it was the DM we'd know how much the lawyers house cost by now. It's all fluff.
What isn't mentioned is how the passenger was treated during the exchange.
Squirrelking.
I think you'll find that all this "fluff" makes for excellent kindling.
because with his idiotic comments he’s suggesting that by taking a symbolic knee black people and their supporters are in fact subjugating themselves to the very people they’re resisting.
Martin Luther King "took the knee" when leading a prayer in 1965. That's before God. Not Dominic Raab's wife.
I noticed there was an article about Covid 19 in Neukölln in the Guardian and read it out of curiosity as junior lives there. The guardian article gives the impression it's Nekölln that's locked down when in fact it's just a few buildings.
Then I saw the word "Roma" and thought WTF, what's that got to do with it?
The mayor of Neukölln, Martin Hikel, said authorities were trying to trace the origins of a new cluster of about 70 infections and had placed more than 370 families, many of them Roma, in quarantine. “We still don’t know the full extent of it,” he told Der Spiegel. “It is proof the pandemic is still very much alive.”
Let's have a look how it's reported in Berlin I thought:
The article explains that the outbreak concerns some of the poorest people and that it's thought a church service is the source of the outbreak. The word "Roma" is not used.
My view is that the German press understands that giving the ethnic origin of an infected group could result in them being (further) stigmatised but the Guardian is happy to stigmatise because it's racist.
the Guardian is happy to stigmatise because it’s racist.
That's the same Guardian you were happy to take as Gospel and slag someone off for taking the inference of their reporting to form a possible explaination? That you're now taking the inference of their reporting to form a possible explaination.
Right you are then.
You need a quote for that Squirelking, even better a page number. I've no idea what you're refering to.
A paper can quote facts (gospel) in such a way that it becomes racist. If you remember I've also accused the Guardian of being xenophobic and anti-European in the past because it reports very little on Europe and when it does cherry picks negative stories givign only part of the inforamation - as it has here on the German Cluster. This time it points at the Roma as if they were the only ones affected and somehow guilty rather than the victims.
They're at it again today with a story about Dijon which paints the town as having useless police and being a drugs nest in which the poor innocent Chechens have to defend themselves.
The Guardian forgets to mention that the Chechen mob was made up of people who had travelled from afar armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols, that the police were intent of avoiding escalation and should be congratualted on managing an explosive situation with nobody getting killed or seriously injured, and that the Chechen leaders words were both inaccurate and provocative.
Check out social media for videos of the events and read some local media sources for comparison
The other Europena stories in the Guardian today are some stereotying of the French:
And the Columbus statue in Barcelona, a attempt at they're as bad/worse than us with it's "dark history".
Read soem European papers to find out what really happening.
I'm talking about
Inventing bollocks, to justify the unjustifiable, you should join the police.
In response to
From the comments the officers were making though they may have been acting on some (incorrect) intelligence that hasn’t been shared or reported.
Which, from the article would appear to be a perfectly valid conclusion based on
Officers searched Bennett’s car but found nothing. “They kept saying to each other: ‘This is not adding up,’” said Bennett. “It’s like I wasn’t fitting the narrative they had."
So it's perfectly fine for you to do it but if someone else does it they're inventing bollocks?
And yet again you back up your argument with a load of sources in another language rather than explaining why these versions are better. This might come as a shock but like most folk in this country I don't speak another language to the sort of fluency levels that I can read other papers, I thought someone as smart as you would realise that.
As for French police not being racist LMAO. I remember a tale of my father and mother in law visiting Paris where, every time she asked for milk with her tea she got a filthy look. Eventually my father in law asked why and was informed, with a sneer, "only p***s take milk with tea". That's the sort of everyday attitudes you're telling me don't indicate societal never mind institutional racism? But then I forget, the French can do no wrong in your eyes.
As for French police not being racist LMAO.
I didn't say that or even imply it, I said the police were intent on avoiding escalation. There's justified debate and protest about racism in the police here too.
I remember a tale
Yeah, just that, a tale.
tale
/teɪl/
noun
noun: tale; plural noun: tales1.
a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted.
"a delightful children's tale"
Use Google translate for anything you don't understand, it works very well. If you're interested in what's happening in Europe you'll have to use foreign sources, unless you like the spin the Anglos-Saxon press puts on events.
Some reports suggested Chechens had travelled to Dijon from all over France as well as neighbouring Belgium and Germany.
Edukator:
The Guardian forgets to mention that the Chechen mob was made up of people who had travelled from afar
The Guardian forgets to mention that the Chechen mob was made up of people who had travelled from afar armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols,
If you're going to quote people at least get as far as the first comma. Where does the Guardian mention the fact they were armed? That was my point. By selectively missing out important details you can change who appears to be in the wrong. By only quoting one side you do a disservice to your readers. It would have been fair to quote the representative of both sides wouldn't it rather than just one highly biased insert suitable adjectives here.
If you’re going to quote people at least get as far as the first comma. Where does the Guardian mention the fact they were armed?
Some reports suggested Chechens had travelled to Dijon from all over France as well as neighbouring Belgium and Germany.
The unrest has focused on the low-income district of Grésilles, which has a large north African population.
On Monday evening, dozens of hooded men carrying arms and crowbars had gathered in Grésilles, shooting in the air, destroying video surveillance cameras and setting fire to bins and vehicles, police said.
Fail. If you're going to argue facts at least get as far as the next paragraph or the one after.
Yeah, just that, a tale.
I'm aware of the dictionary definition thank you, I'll draw attention to
true narrative
since you seem to be incapable maintaining an attention span long enough to read things in their entirety.
If you’re going to quote people at least get as far as the first comma. Where does the Guardian mention the fact they were armed?
er, 27 words later
By selectively missing out important details you can change who appears to be in the wrong.
Indeed you can. 😆 😆 😆
You're both determined to miss the point about assault riffles and automatic pistols. "Arms" is is minimising the threat when more detail is available. Assault riffles and automatic pistols tells you the people wielding them deserve no sympathy whatsover. They're not an Opinel that's in someone's pocket to cut up the saucisson at lunch.
Anyhow, thank you for your tale, I'd love to meet your in-laws. I suggest they order things that are on the price list, there's always one posted somewhere, it's a legal requirement. I wonder which language they ordered in as you're so keen to banish anything non-English on this forum.
Keep it all coming, it's a symptom of a set of attitudes to anyone vaguely different whether by colour, faith, culture, nationality... .
You can never be wrong can you?
I suggest they order things that are on the price list, there’s always one posted somewhere, it’s a legal requirement.
What's that got to do with anything?
I wonder which language they ordered in as you’re so keen to banish anything non-English on this forum.
Who said that? All I said was that like most folk in this country I don’t speak another language to the sort of fluency levels that I can read other papers. For someone shouting about folk telling tales I'd suggest referring to your back catalogue rather than something I said on the same page if you're going to make crap up. And I wouldn't be relying on a computer transliteration either thanks.
Oh, but since you like google dictionary so much:
arms
/ɑːmz/
noun
plural noun: arms
1.
weapons; armaments.
"arms and ammunition"
Anyone with a basic command of English would understand that but feel free to add more hilarity with your furious back pedalling.
Putting words in my mouth, unfounded accusations with no attempt at justification, a blatantly anti-French tale, and all this on an anti-racism thread.
Have a good Sunday evening, Sqirrelking.
Bises.
Oh look, Eds bickering again. I am shocked.
*ignores provocation*
Oh dear the guy that flew the banner accross Burnley has lost his job
so has his girlfriend (who was employed by his mum)
because unsurprisingly he was a racist idiot and liked to broadcast it on social media
https://twitter.com/MirrorFootball/status/1275816568795078657
The misguided outrage on Twitter is remarkable.
Intensive Racial Sensitivity training
His girlfriend needed that? What is that? FFs...
Burnley fan
They spelled arsehole wrong.
Also he is shorter then Stephen Yaxley Lennon, so maybe the headline should be "Racist short arse..."
If anyone wants to see an interesting an applicable documentary regarding racial awareness and systemic racism, this was very good:
Shocking to see the kids experiences but more shocking that when you see that, its so easy to relate to our adults lives as is. It struck me that this is pretty much the education we need as adults. I took away two things
a) The stunning realisation that I've never, ever sat down and thought "what is it like to be white?" and the reasoning for that
b) There is almost zero cultural representation of any BAME culture in our museums etc.
There's also a fact in there that in 1860(?) the British government took a £20m loan to compensate Slaves and victims of slavery. It was passed to the "owners". Thats right, the white plantation owners, traders, merchants etc and very little found its way to the slaves themselves. But whats more shocking is that the final loan payment was in 2015. 2015! So in recent modern times our modern governments have overseen a massive misappropriation of funds based on Slavery. Jesus...
It struck me that this is pretty much the education we need as adults.
Agree, what I was thinking when I watched it.
If anyone wants to see an interesting an applicable documentary regarding racial awareness and systemic racism, this was very good:
That sounds really interesting, thank you - will definitely catch up on that.
It's been an interesting few weeks, being doing a lot of reading around racism, and I've tons more books to get through. But what's been soberingly scary has been engaging with white folks on Twitter about race - the intransigence, the truculence, the refusal to even consider that making judgements about people based on skin tone is in any way wrong. The number of times people dismiss police brutality on black people because "more white police are killed by black people than the other way round"... I expected a bit of it, but not a whole cavalcade. How the hell do you change that mindset?
I can't ever know what it's like to be a person of colour in the UK, but I'm more aware than ever of white privilege, and also how many white people take it for granted without even knowing what it is.
I mentioned Starkey earlier in this thread.
He's up to his old tricks again. What an utter prick.
Starkey is a horrendous human being, I though Boris was once again going to walk off with ****er of the day, but here comes an old throbber upon his trusty white stead named privilege to claim the spoils...
He could do with being starved of publicity now, surely he has nothing important to add to the world as his world view is obviously tainted.
Starkey finally got what he deserved.
That racial bias in school programme was excellent. My lad was wondering how it might work in schools like his, with less than 1% of pupils not being white, although we're in the old BNP heartlands where it's possibly needed more than elsewhere.
Funny thing with Starkey is that the first thing I think of when his name pops up is the BBC, both in relation to his documentaries and his frequent appearances on QT etc. In much the same way as they provided a platform for BJ, NF and JRM, the BBC presented this guy as authentic historian for years.
Maybe it's time we started thinking about black history as actual history. The conventional histories served up by the education system and espoused by the obsequious toad and others like him look increasingly like a set of alternative facts, Starkey moulds facts to fit his feelings, that's not what a historian does.
Still, looks like he's been sent to the knaclers yard, his seat has been replaced by David Olusoga, it's been great to see both him and his documentaries getting a lot of rotation the last month or so, reminding us of what a proper historian is. Hopefully what Olusoga does will be seen not as history from a black perspective bit actual history, based on facts and events rather than a redacted narrative in the service of a socio political agenda.
Starkey, Hopkins & Grimes (sounds like a particularly dodgy firm of lawyers) should all be turfed into the sea.
What an utter prick.
The speed at which some of those institutions hoofed him into the sea makes me think that some had those statements ready prepared for the inevitable racist nonsense to dribble from his mouth...
Good riddance
I see his nodding dog interviewer, after tweeting afterwards how great it is to meet your heroes, has had to have a bit of a climbdown after the world put him straight.
The National Trust for Scotland gives Neil Oliver full support for his love of Starkey, because he said it before the interview was aired.
MoreCash, my daughter was wondering that as she's the only kid with African heritage in her year. One teacher did BLM for a week but my daughter abstained as blatant racism was unchecked.
Once Starkey got onto the Posh Hopkins ladder he was always likely to end up falling off it- he's a clever guy no doubt but he doesn't seem to have the low cunning and nous that you need to sucessfully right the Offence Wave. You have to always be ramping it up to stay "relevant" while staying just on the right side of the line, or close enough to drift back over it.
I hope people who defended him in the past are looking back at all the previous times he's done the exact same thing, but just not quite gone too far, and realising it wasn't the "professionally offended" or "snowflakes" or whatever stupid term they used to dismiss it.
The odious little shitbag will resurface at some point. In his mind he's too important not to be providing pithy, perjorative ramblings.
Just had a pop onto Neil Oliver's Twitter feed.
Wish I hadn't.
That posh Hopkins ladder is getting rather crowded at the moment. Neil Oliver's Twitter feed is full of links to familiar characters such as Douglas Murray, Nial Ferguson, Toby Young and a round-up of Spectator and Telegraph contributors.
A ladder is a good analogy because their arguments have no breadth to them, the simply repeat ad infinitum that were under the oppressive yolk of a Maoist cultural revolution and cite Orwell's 1984. The only direction they can go is upwards, until they're pushed off by the plonkers climbing up behind them.
I like to keep an open mind as they say and have previously read stuff from some of these commentators wether I've agreed with their politics or not. The statue toppling thing though has seriously pushed this mob over the edge into intellectual bankruptcy. If the best argument that they have is that someone like me supporting BLM does not know why I am protesting because I am under the spell of a Marxist, Maoist conspiracy cult then they have no argument at all.
For a bit of balance and to show that I genuinely try to vary my sources there's a rather brilliant 10 minute synopsis of the Coulston affair by Mathew Parrish on a Spectator podcast. Wether you choose to listen to the Douglas Murray piece that precedes it is up to you. I did and it was hilarious.
Maybe it’s time we started thinking about black history as actual history.
Well, you might as well learn a bit more history.
Some could be my ancestors as they came from a region of my ancestral land.
Chinese Coolies - 苦力 Kǔ lì
My neighbouring country ...
The Savage History of Slavery Indonesia
Slavery in Asia
Here more history of slavery from all over the world ...
That racial bias in school programme was excellent. My lad was wondering how it might work in schools like his, with less than 1% of pupils not being white,
Yes, that school was blessed with having a very high non white % much higher than national average. Try it in a school where just one or two kids are not white and the group stuff may not work quite as well...
inkster
MemberThe only direction they can go is upwards, until they’re pushed off by the plonkers climbing up behind them.
It all reminds me of that old Onion article, "Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People"
Fight the power 2020 Booooyyy:
Most excellent.
David Starkey is living proof that you don't have to be stupid to be a c***.
There's been some fantastic speakers at the Stand Up To Racism online rallies. Tonight was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Diane Abbot, and Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE.
Im going to be a prick and say yes. In my cynical view, this is what he wanted, a nice video where he can play the victim. Thanks to this he might get a couple more interviews and cash in.
Why did they perform the stop is a different question.
Do you think a white man would have been treated the same? Yes the man in the car could have been more compliant and yes its normal procedure to get them out of the car and in cuffs while the drug search is done but its so obvious racial profiling and his treatment once he didn't comply immediately and totally was completely over the top but when you are constantly stopped and searched for no reason other than for being a black man in a nice car then it will colour your reactions.
the guy in the car did not provoke the situation and I'll bet you he gets an apology and compensation
I'll quote myself just in case you missed it:
Why did they perform the stop is a different question.
There is a pending inquiry going on, maybe wait for that before passing judgement?
If he is so used to police stopping him, he knew how this was going to turn out, therefore in my mind he was looking for this outcome. He will get an apology, compensation and probably follow-up interviews in the media.
Is this OK ?
I wouldn’t place my trust any video of the police that’s been edited like that.
Though just think, all he really had to do was get out the car when lawfully detained by a Constable in uniform.
As someone said to me many years ago, if the police are breaking the rules then you can sue them afterwards (even easier now everyone has a camera phone) but resisting a lawful search/arrest is only going to go one way.
its normal procedure to get them out of the car and in cuffs while the drug search is done but its so obvious racial
In which case, how come in the Police! Stop! Action! Programmes they sit them in the back of the jam sandwich and have a nice little chat with them?
Why did they perform the stop is a different question.
Racial profiling.
Black people are over 40% more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by the police. This isn't because black people are more likely to commit crimes, they're just more likely to caught and charged than whites because of the higher rates of stop and search.
People are questioning why he didn't just surrender to the will of the police and comply. Can you imagine being regularly pulled over, sometimes twice in a day because you looked at the police and are wearing joggers?
For middle class white people the police are their to protect you, but for black people they're there to hassle you and often act with disproportionate violence. Even if you're the victim you will be searched and possibly cuffed, like the little lad who was beaten and went to them for help.
White people have been conditioned to believe that black people are inferior, more criminal, lazy, and stupid than whites through a systemically racist system and an overtly racist society and insidious systemic racism. You may think that you're not racist because you have black friends and wouldn't call someone a racist name, however it's something that needs to be constantly worked at to ensure that you're not applying biases. As a white person I've been witness to various forms of racism, from being pulled over whilst driving with a black man; he was searched, I wasn't (I did have a gram of weed on me) to border control appearing at legal weddings.
To return to the original question
Why did they perform the stop is a different question
My local authority Head of Education said that *"The teacher gave his class factual information in relation to the bone density of black people and white people and an explanation of the physiology of black people" when a teacher made a racist comment to a group of 10 yr olds talking about their swimming lessons. Now, if you have been taught that ability comes from a lack of melanin and follow that line of "science" you will also learn that black people are criminal. This was upheld by the Scottish Education Minister John Swinney as local authorities can set their own curriculum under the Curriculum for Exellence. Some of these kids are going to go on to be police officers, who will see black people as a threat.
*Her grammar as a Head of Education is terrible.