Tashawn Bernard, 12, was detained by Lansing police officers while he was taking out the garbage in a video clip that has drawn criticism on social media.
It repeatedly mentions "the young man" particularly as quoted by the police chief.
No, that is not a "young man." That is a boy. Unequivocally so. This wasn't a 18-year-old man. It was a 12-year-old boy. Absolutely ridiculous that nobody calls out authority figures making statements like that.
Excellent catch, thanks. I'd completely missed it, but four times this 12-year-old is referred to as "young man," and all four come from the police chief. It's language intended to obfuscate.
It's almost as if the English language has multiple ways to say a young person. Like say...young person...kid...child....pre teen...teen....I could go on but I think I made my point which is it was intentional to downplay the police being useless pieces of shit.
I'd be r-e-a-l-l-y interested to see a mug shot of the car thief, if he exists and he's ever caught. I'll bet there's no resemblance at all except that he's black.
”The officers of the Lansing Police Department are working very hard to address the recent car thefts plaguing our city. In doing so, yesterday officers detained a young man who was wearing similar clothing[“]
Okay, so two points: one is that a 12 year old is not in any way a young man. And two, the kid was wearing neon green shorts.
I have been arrested for looking like someone else.
The cop proceeded to take me to an older woman's house to ID me, she proceeded to tell the cop that her grandson had brown (mine was bleach blonde) hair, no piercings (me: eyebrow, nose, lip, both ears, tongue), and was about 10 years younger than me. For reference I am mixed but basically white. But the same shit happened and it was absolutely ridiculous.
Don't trust the police to do the right thing ever.