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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
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Dog, I'm white with a small crack on my ID and cops STILL go crazy. The thing that pisses me off, is when they TRY to break your ID and act like they're testing it.
You had 4 masked cops come out of an unmarked car and call you a liar?
Then try to seize your phone?
Then ICE rep calls you a liar again?
https://www.newsweek.com/northern-exposure-actress-elaine-miles-detained-by-ice-told-id-is-fake-11124694
Nowhere in the comment you're replying to did it say or imply anything along the lines of "the same thing happened to me."
True. But what this person and her family went through should not be normalized or belittled. You seem like a good guy, so I bet you understand why I had to type that out.
I rather took the comment as clearly saying 'if they do it to my privileged demographic, how much worse will it be for the people they visually target?'
It could be. I explained it and apologized if that's how they meant it. I might be reacting like this is reddit and too strongly.
Right intention, wrong direction. Good looking out, but I'm confident they were being more sympathetic than your initial interpretation. "If white people get hassled over little details like this, I can only imagine how poc get treated" seems to be their intended message.
No? I had a cop question my ID. I'm mostly angry with aggressive cops. I want to be on the same side.
It looks like it could be taken 2 different ways. I apologize if you were empathizing with her.
The reason I went so strongly is because of the amount of people who are so shitty to Native Americans. In a suburb of Seattle, the cops were doing a wellness check and then shot and killed a pregnant woman in front of her kid. They were covering each others asses left and right. Who tf knows what really happened.
In Vancouver BC, there are many, many missing First People. Canada isn't immune either. I had no idea how bad it is until we moved here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/harrison-poorman-osoup-three-years-1.7504952
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/pregnant-washington-woman-shot-and-killed-by-deputies-during-wellness-check-on-tribal-land-2649205285
Dog, no. I agree! I can see how our comments could be easily misread. I think we're in the same book. If it makes you feel any better, go through my comments. It happens.
Thanks for understanding.