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And did you ever stop and think one of the possible reasons the store owner acted hostile towards the cops is he’s had issues with the cops pulling him aside for things in the past?

Many times blacks view police with suspicion because police are being used not to enforce the law put to enforce a veneer of “order” in “poorer neighborhoods”.

And that number of encounters is a metric to measure how well the police are doing this?

And that metric gives rise to ■■■■■■■■ laws like being able to stop someone for “obstructing pedestrian traffic” and the like…laws whose only purpose is to deliberately increase the number of police interactions so the police can show how effective they are?