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- It's true that some on the left who are aghast at racial profiling are sometimes prone to career profiling: We should stereotype neither black youths nor white cops. Some extremist protesters turned to the slogan “arms up, shoot back,” or to chants of “What do we want? Dead cops.” That was inexcusable. But, of course, that’s not remotely what Obama was saying.
This is where you have to come to understand that protests are a buildup of lots of things like this happening and going ignored, not just a protest over a single event.“What about the poor black child that is killed by another black child?” he added. “Why aren’t you protesting that?”