Racism? By whom? This video of Texas cops stopping a black professor is a racial ‘Rorschach test’

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Dashcam video shows two Corinth, Texas, police officers stop and question University of North Texas journalism dean Dorothy Bland on Oct. 24 while she was exercising in her neighborhood. (Corinth Police Department)

By Michael E. Miller-November 4 

On Oct. 24, University of North Texas professor Dorothy Bland was walking around her affluent Dallas suburb when she was stopped by police. Bland, who is African American, had been exercising in the street. The cops, who are both white, asked her to walk in the opposite direction so she could see traffic or, even better, to use the sidewalk. Roughly three minutes later, she was on her way.

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