Shaunie O'Neal Quotes
I'm scared if the cops pull me over.
O'Neal, Shaunie. Interview. The Breakfast Club, Power 105.1 FM, 14 July 2016.
Reporter Wesley Lowery was arrested in the 2014 protest demonstrations in Ferguson, MO when the police were badly mishandling the crowd control of people angry that a young black man with is hands up was shot and killed by a white officer of the almost totally segregated police force in an overwhelmingly black community. The area, was a vestige of the Jim Crow South and resented the press and especially the outside press.
Terror conceptually in France and some other countries was the tool the government used to inhibit criminals.
This statement by the police commissioner was very controversial as a major form of police brutality at the time was clubbing citizens with their nightsticks which were much larger and heavier than those used today. However the effect on the police officers was to green light heavy use of the nightstick and soon there was a major incident where the police badly beat many innocent citizens in their quest to control and punish alleged leftists. Whalen was forced to resign. See {626664} and {626663}.
The judge found that Blacks and Hispanics were stopped and frisked at a much higher rate than whites despite the fact that whites, when they were stopped and searched had a higher rate of carrying an illegal gun or illegal substances.
The police knew she was a leftist but most didn’t really understand what that meant. In those days, police were not very well educated and many had no more than a few grades of elementary school. They were assigned to keep order at her public speeches (where there were sometimes protestors threatening violence), but the police would often erroneously assume that something she would say was illegal—freedom of speech was not what it is today. She was quite used to the harassment. Most police at the beginning of the 21st century are still generally undereducated with only a small minority being college graduates.
Given that the Black population is less than 15 percent of the total, the odds against this occurring by chance is less than 100 million to one. The problem was then very hard to solve in that in most cases the cause was not anti-Black hostility. Rather it was that most police—including some Black police officers—were more fearful for Black males relative to white males and perceived themselves or the public in mortal danger much more often with Blacks than with whites in similar situations. Much of this was a historical societal bias and fear of Black males and much was the result of the disproportionate media depiction of violent Black males.
Va'Shaundya Karlette "Shaunie" O'Neal is an American television personality, entrepreneur, philanthropist and one of the executive producers of VH-1's reality TV series, Basketball Wives, Basketball Wives LA, and Baller Wives. She was formerly a film marketer and wife of former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal.
