So Much for Progress

The Harvard professor who got harassed by the cops when they responded to a 911 call about a possible break in shouldn't be pissed at the cops. He should be pissed at his neighbor who didn't recognize him and called the cops. The cops were just responding. Maybe they were jerky to him when they got there (which I do not condone), but they wouldn't be there if someone else didn't call in thinking he was up to no good. And it's not like the neighbor called the cops because he was sitting on his porch relaxing and reading a book. He was trying to wedge open a door. Which looks a hell of a lot like breaking in to a spying neighbor who lacks the balls to hollar across the street, "Hey Henry...is that you?"

I'm gonna go on a limb and say it doesn't really matter though because if the cops didn't respond to the call and someone did in fact break in to the professors home, he would probably say that cops are racist because they wouldn't respond to a call in a black neighborhood.

The further we come, the longer we have to go.

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