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Why didn't the black kid stop running??? What an idiot.


What was up with that? If I'm jogging on a street in school clothes at night and I hear cops telling me to stop, I STOP!!! He seemed a bit borderline retarded. Then he wouldn't answer the cops' questions. He deserved to be collared. I'm sorry, maybe this was some racial profiling, but you have to use your brain. I liked that character up to that point.

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That was a poor scene, and if it was meant to offend us, it failed. If a cop asks me where I'm coming from I wouldn't say "I don't know". Well where do you live? "I don't know". You think that isn't suspicious behavior???? He could have said "I just moved into a new apartment six blocks back on X Street and I don't remember the exact address. He was a surly dickhead to the cops, and that won't gain you any favors. This scene was a major fail.

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He has just been snatched away from a life with gangs, and is attempting to adjust to a new neighborhood. He's in a strange neighborhood and his paranoia gets the better of him. What's the issue here?

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In 2014 / 2015 ...he would have been shot dead

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