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Police Hold ‘Extraordinary’ Power In Traffic Stops, Law Professor Says : NPR

Attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Wright family, said in a separate interview earlier this week that Daunte Wright "was doing, like most marginalized minorities, trying to run away and get away from the police because Black men in particular are afraid when the police interacts with them because it normally ends up in bad results."

Butler, who is Black, says he too is constantly afraid of being confronted by police.

"Any Black person who is aware of the news, who knows history, has to be anxious around the police," Butler says. "I'm older. I'm a professional. I'm law-abiding. Whenever I see a cop car behind me, my heart starts beating faster. I don't go to places late at night where I'd have to drive and be on a lonely road where I might be pulled over. I don't want to take the risk."

He argues, "if you don't immediately stop ... in addition to whatever traffic infraction, you're committing contempt of cop. And bad officers will make you pay for that. ... It's so arbitrary and so that police officers who are racist or biased, they have so much power."

Snow Depth – Friday April 16

I can’t understate how disappointed I am with the fact that the weather crapped out for getting up north. If I had gone up north, there would have been a fair amount of wet sloppy snow to deal with, even though I’m a bit skeptical about these snow totals, or that they will last very long as temperatures are a few degrees above freezing, even up north.
 

It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion | FiveThirtyEight

It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion | FiveThirtyEight

Only 47 percent of American adults said they were members of a church, mosque or synagogue, according to recently released polling that was conducted by Gallup throughout last year. It marked the first time that a majority of Americans said they were not members of a church, mosque or synagogue since Gallup first started asking Americans about their religious membership in the 1930s.