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Powerful, powerful piece - thanks for sharing.
As an American living in England, it's especially interesting reading of a Brit's experience in my home country. I'm not black, and have been given the benefits of good schools, middle-class parents, and the like since birth.
Sure, I've always 'known' racism exists - but until technology put smartphones in every pocket, and made it easier to capture these incidents for everyone to see, it was much more comfortable for my worldview to think that the police were almost universally right.
No longer. I have the utmost respect for the many, many brave police officers out there who just want to serve and protect, but it's impossible to ignore, deny, or downplay that this country has a huge, huge problem that we ALL need to address.
This sentence shows that discrimination doesn't just happen in America: "if my aim was to escape aggressive policing and racial disadvantage, I would not be heading to Hackney." However, there are less shootings in the UK.