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I don't really fear police (white 30 year old with no accent) because I know it's fairly rare that some thing bad will happen to me with them.

I also don't fear terrorists who are even less likely to harm me, or the monsters under my bed.

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You are also less likely to hide in the bushes to ambush someone who annoyed you, more likely to get out of the middle of the street when the cop yells at you to do that, and to not be selling loose cigarettes in public.

I'm a coward, not a saint. Nor am I very "progressive" (yuck) so I'm not trying to be apologetic to minorities. But I've done things that get black folks killed that white folks get warnings for.

And that's the problem. No one should get killed (or jail!) for selling cigs off the street

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