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by _hilro 1709 days ago
Whilst the main story of the focus is the case involving black kids, the story also details the case of a white kid wronged by this person.

If stats were available to show black children in general were targeted, the piece would have included them.

Including 'Black children' in the title is unnecessary other than one of the arresting officers in this particular case wondered would this(arresting/cuffing at school over being an observer) happen in a white school.

She's an idiot. She may also be a racist but the article doesn't provide any evidence for that.

I wonder sometimes if people ever read past the headline and first paragraph.

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We are assuming the evidence exists, the article says the county and state have both discontinued reporting of juvenile detention statistics.

Sure, the only evidence we have of racial targeting is anecdotal, but if we use a Bayesian approach, the fact that the party that is conducting the profiling shuts off the data that would disprove that notion, it gives us a very strong prior.

Davenport carries adultism. That's the word.