Hungry boy - Do you Care Enough to be a Cop?

[RavenSky]

1. Do you need another 10,000,000 examples of black people being discriminated against or out right murdered by the police before you recognize that sometimes when there's an obvious pattern, there's an obvious pattern?

An even more prevalent pattern is that many cops are authoritarian "Alpha" type aggressive pricks who take any level of non-submissiveness as a challenge to their authority triggering them to exercise that authority.
The cops did not pull up and arrest the guy when they saw him. They came back and confronted him when he (rightly) yelled at them, and likely gave them some back-talk when they gave them their "We can do whatever we want" excuse for almost killing him.

That would be enough for many cops to go after him, no matter his race.

In sum, while racism is a plausible factor, simply standard police authoritarian aggression is sufficient and even more plausible in the absence of more information.

Your post reminded me of this in Auckland:

New Zealand law enforcement wants to hire 400 new cops, and they are recruiting these new cops by conducting real-life social experiments on video.

"We are looking for people who care about the people in their communities. People who will step in when they see someone who needs helps or is doing something that is unsafe," police official Karen Jones said in a press release. "The kind of people we want to attract care about making a positive difference. With NZ Police there are many opportunities to turn that care into positive action."

The first social experiment involved a young male actor playing a lost child eating food out of garbage bins. According to the NZ Police Recruitment Facebook page, in the 35 minutes that the boy was outside eating garbage, 500 people passed by. Most of them ignored him. A few of them even threw garbage away without noticing him. Their faces were blurred out in the video.

I think this is the right way to hire police officers. I think they should have given applications to the 10 people (out of 500) who stopped to help the kid. I do, however, applaud the Auckland police for presenting this as what they want their police culture to be about.