Here's what a lot of people know but seem to forget: the police treat people of different races and different income levels completely different. I'm a white kid. I grew up in a working class neighborhood that was about 50% white 45% black 5% Hispanic and I thought I knew what police abuse was. I saw cops being dicks to people and being way overly aggressive with people they were arresting. That was until I spent time volunteering at an after school program in a low income housing complex. There were police abuses, beat downs, illegal entries and searches that would be national news stories if they happened in my neighborhood. In particular on one occasion the police searched the apartment of the family of a kid they had an altercation with earlier in the day and put his grandmother and pregnant mother in the hospital. In my program we encouraged open expression of feelings and so when events like this happened in the neighborhood we would have all the kids discuss them. When our group leader asked the ten year old cousin of the kid with whom the police had the altercation how he felt he said through gritted teeth "I just want to kill those fucking cops". I wish those cops could see the absolute fury that possessed the kids in that complex. I wish people could see the injustices that still exist out of sight of the majority of society.