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7:52pm July 22, 2015

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CNN panel explodes after ex-cop says Sandra Bland died because she was ‘arrogant from the beginning’

CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning…”

“Sometimes police officers act as if you’re not completely kowtowing and deferential, that somehow you’re violating a law,” [CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill said]. “This is a perfect example of how vulnerable black women are in public spaces to law enforcement…”

“I refuse to legitimize police violence against people by telling them that if they behave differently, maybe they won’t die,” Hill insisted. “Harry said maybe you won’t end up on the ground. Yes, there are strategies we can use to survive. But the fact that we live in a world where we have to deploy strategies not to be murdered or killed or assaulted by police unlawfully is absurd.”

“What Harry is calling arrogance, I’m calling dignity,” Hill declared. “Black people have a right to assert their dignity in public. And just because it doesn’t cohere with what police want doesn’t mean they are being arrogant or dismissive.”

1) Arrogance isn’t a crime.

2) Looks to me like Harry Houck just admitted that he thinks the cops murdered her because she was arrogant. 

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