...but that doesn't mean it's not the place for telling an officer that what he just said about the travel speed of cars on the highway not five feet away is untrue, nor that what another officer's just done constitutes trickery or entrapment, nor that what yet another officer has done is to write a ticket for something based upon hearsay that he didn't witness. Policemen are human, not robots. When they're wrong, they're wrong, and at some level they know it and it will affect their future actions. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but someday, and maybe not every officer, maybe not most of them or even maybe only a few of them, but I don't believe the words are wasted.
Sound words. Right words.
The problem is you are not black in America.
Being sound and right doesn't mean you will not end up being a dead black American.
"Yes, Massa. Hands up. Don't shoot."