Hmmmm..... Is this supposed to be a real discussion or a loaded question?
Regarding the New Orleans incident you've linked to, we'll have to wait to see if it was, in fact, racially motivated. I'm pretty sure that racism was a heavy contributor to the harassment of a 64 year-old guy. But there's more to it than that. After all, a policeman did also push around a white news reporter who was trying to get the story. I think you have to remember some contributing factors.
1. New Orleans police are assholes to being with. Especially in the Quarter. They are also notoriously corrupt as indicated by the investigations of cops stealing cars from a local dealership just before the storm hit, stories of cops ignoring reported crimes of rape and assault, rumors of them shooting stranded pets for fun, and 250 of them just up and deserting their posts after the hurricane.
2. In the past two months these cops have had to deal with their city flooding twice, mass evacuations, 24 hour shifts, sleeping in their cars (only recently going to 12 hour shifts and getting rooms on board a docked cruise ship), losing everything they own to the storm, being shot at by gangs who stayed behind to loot and run wild, and having their whole family displaced.
Racism is most likely the reason that they targeted Davis. I'm not going to deny that. I just think that a normally volatile situation has been made even worse over the past two months. The second he questioned them or said something they didn't like, the damn just broke. I'm not saying that's an excuse, cuz it isn't. I'm just saying that New Orleans has been a powder keg as of late.
