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[QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3433562, member: 55"]
You need to read what people say instead of what you'd like them to be saying.  I have no clue whatsoever whether Knight would have swung at a white police officer who was trying to force him off the court in that situation.  Frankly, as swinging as a police officer because you don't want to follow his instructions is not acceptable behavior for anyone, much less an employee of a state, I don't particularly care why he thought assault was an acceptable option there or if race had anything to do with it.

The reaction of law enforcement and the State of Indiana to the incident, the ignoring by a state of the judicial branch of another part of the U.S.'s papers to extradite, and the ultimate settlement of the matter all were largely influenced both by Knight's standing as a powerful white man and the fact that it was Puerto Rico that wanted him extradited and not Iowa.  That's what my point was and that's the truth.  Anyone who thinks that you would get away with assaulting an in uniform police officer in a white state -- that the government of your state would protect you from being tried for hitting a police officer somewhere else in the U.S.  -- is lying.
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