Several conservative sites this week declared they had "debunked" New York Times columnist Charles Blow's story about his son, who was allegedly stopped recently at gunpoint by a Yale police officer.
What was the bombshell that Blow had supposedly kept secret? The officer was apparently black.
In an op-ed published Sunday, Blow had relayed a story from his son Tahj about his recent run-in with a campus police officer who allegedly raised his gun and told the student to turn around and get on the ground.
Blow wrote that he was "exceedingly happy" that he had spoken to his son previously about precautions young black men should take when confronted by a police officer.
"In these moments, what you’ve done matters less than how you look," he wrote.
Yale University later issued a campus-wide email that, among other things, noted that the officer in question was black, according to The Root.
Conservative media was convinced the officer's race blew the entire story wide open.
"RACE-HOAX DEBUNKED: COP WHO DETAINED CHARLES BLOW’S SON IS BLACK," was the Drudge-like headline at Breitbart News.
The site wrote that Blow was simply "pretending" that he had educated his son about racial inequities in American law enforcement, pointing to the "(ahem, black) cops" in this case.
Blow appeared on CNN Thursday night and told host Anderson Cooper that the racial component doesn't change the point of what happened.
"It was more about culture of the police officers dealing with these young black men than individual officers dealing with these young black men," he said.i posted this more to get the story out but i did not see where Mr. Blow was quoted as saying racist cops, i myself have written many times of the ruthlessness of Black cops toward Black citizens it's like they need to show the rest of the force they are not biased and just as radically aggressive toward Blacks as they are, you know "one on them". we saw what happened when Black officers report against their White counterparts and their racist actions.
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this is right wing trying to spin and control what happened by adding narrative that was not said or true, and if they think Black parents don't warn their kids about police aggression Black, Brown, yellow and white they are admitting they know nothing of Black culture and any thing they might have said to explain the Black experience is a ignorant racist lie.
