McCoy had been sleeping in his car at a Vallejo, California, Taco Bell parking lot when the cops confronted him. The most persuasive explanation for these viral videos of US cops wilding out: they don’t think of blacks as human beings. Eberhardt has also found patterns of dehumanization in the way that cops talk to black people. The Phoenix cops used much harsher language than “bro”. But until the police learn that lesson, we should expect more cases of cops treating black people like subhumans.

Source: The Guardian June 29, 2019 06:00 UTC