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Someone, black or white, wearing a holstered gun in public is no threat.Someone, black or white, pointing a gun (real or toy) at people is a threat.The folk that got scared and stopped the ball game should simply be pitied.

Long long ago and far far away I had a job doing economic and statistical surveys prior to building cable systems. On such survey looked at two small towns in South Carolina just south of Charlotte NC. As you went into the town there was a billboard saying "Nigger don't let the sun set on you here!" and signed by the Sheriff.Not too long afterwards we learned that the President had not just lied but condoned payoffs and secret monitoring of any groups concerned with supporting equal rights for blacks or opposition to his policies. In Philadelphia the police dropped a fire bomb on row houses to burn out blacks. Police used tear gas and fire hoses and attach dogs to break up peaceful demonstrations.All over the US police did not just deny equal rights for blacks but actively supported discrimination and oppression.To not distrust the police, local, state and national governments when it comes to human rights would simply be stupid and willfully ignorant.