Journalist: Ferguson Cops Racist for Not Confronting ‘Oath Keepers’

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BOLDUAN: "One thing that seemed different last night was among the crowd there were these heavily armed members of a controversial patriot group known as the oath keepers. The St. Louis county police chief called their presence amongst the protesters unnecessary and inflammatory. Did you see them there? Why were they there and what were they doing?" 
KING: "Well, they're intimidating the protesters. They open carry assault rifles which is their Second Amendment protective right and Missouri has really liberal open carry laws. But the Oath Keepers really at the center of the debate of the Black Lives Matter movement if you look at them properly. What you have here is a case of implicit bias and threat assessment. You have law enforcement officers looking at these conservative middle aged white men with assault rifles and not assessing them as a threat because they see them as like them, they like guns, and they're not going to shoot anybody unless they have a good reason to. These same law enforcement officers consistently look at 15 to 25-year-old African Americans with cell phones or bottles of fragrance and assume they're carrying handguns when they're actually carrying cell phones or bottles of fragrance. If question look at the way cops assess the threat of oath keepers remarkably and get them to assess the threat of young African Americans as rationally. If we could actually get law enforcement to make those decisions the same for those two categories of people, we could actually get somewhere with this movement."