An 8-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were pulled over at gunpoint by multiple Sacramento police officers on their way to football practice.
An 8-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were pulled over at gunpoint by multiple Sacramento police officers on their way to football practice.
Holy shit he’s FUCKING EIGHT YEARS OLD. Did they just see a black kid and lose their fucking minds
Yes. It’s called adultification, and it’s a common example of unconscious bias in policing.
The Adultification of Black Children
‘They saw me as calculating, not a child’: how adultification leads to black children being treated as criminals
Daily?