By Mona Austin Is the Phoenix shoplifting couple deliberately looking to get paid from an ill-fated police encounter? First the country became accustomed to law enforcement officers over-reacting in encounters that led to the deaths of Black men, then Black women and then Black children. . .Now a situation in Phoenix, AZ shows a worsening pattern of racial profiling that criminalized an entire Black family as they faced the threat of death from a group of police officers. This group of officers was recorded threatening to take their lives without a proper assessment of the situation. Video footage of the encounter shows the officers acting in a manner that many deem as too forceful for the petty crime of alleged shoplifting.
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