2 videos show police arresting non-black suspects who are resisting arrest and threatening an officer. Neither suspect was tasered, beaten or shot to death. The videos prove police double standards exists in regards to race in America.
In the first video, Michelle Manhart, a former Air Force vet who was discharged for posing in Playboy magazine, is seen resisting arrest after she tried to stop Valdosta College students from trampling on the American flag.
Miss Manhart, who is white, refused police orders to return the flag to the students, who are black. Manhart resisted arrest and it took three male officers to cuff her. Yet, unlike Eric Garner, she was not put in a chokehold or restrained with a knee on her back.
Some of the students noted the lack of violent police response to Miss Manhart’s aggressive behavior. One student can be heard saying, “She’s resisting arrest,” while other students reply, “She ain’t gonna get shot though” and “Why ain’t she shot in the ass yet?”
The 2nd video is even more egregious. The video captured on a police body cam shows a double murder suspect advancing on an Ohio police officer who orders him to back off.
The suspect threatens the officer, charges at the officer, puts his hand in his pocket as if going for a weapon, bends down to pick up an object in a threatening manner, and even tells the cop to shoot him. Yet, unlike Michael Brown or Walter Scott, the suspect was not tased or shot.
In both instances police used great restraint compared to the police involved in the deaths of unarmed black males.
Watch the videos below.
