OF RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STATUS
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Holtzclaw’s “mistake” — the slip-up that prosecutors said landed him in orange jail scrubs in an unremarkable fluorescent-lit courtroom on Wednesday — was believing J.L. was similar to his other alleged victims: all black middle-aged women, but women of a lower social status and with reason to fear the authorities. They had been caught with active warrants or drug paraphernalia. J.L., Davis said, had no criminal record to be held over her. She was driving through the neighborhood where the other women were confronted, but she didn’t live there...
J.L.’s report would put Holtzclaw on administrative leave and make up two of the state’s 16 charges against the young cop. But more broadly, it would launch a case that underscores how alleged police abuse of minorities goes far beyond Ferguson, Missouri — but how national attention does not.
Buzzfeed.com
We do not think about class and social status enough in regards to how women are treated day to day. We definitely do not think about class and status as much as serial rapists and serial murderers of women do; They know who they can rape and kill by the dozen...before a single police officer decides to notice.
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