Nelly arrested over rape accusation

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CGI-Quality said:

RolStoppable said:

That's the impression I get from the news about the USA. Well, the little I hear about it. Apparently there was an incident where a player from the Seattle Seahawks was near an area with reported gunshots and police officers threw him to the ground and put a gun to his head before doing anything else. The premise of "guilty until proven otherwise" seems to be a real thing for black people in the USA. This "guilty until proven otherwise" is implied in the sentence you removed from my quote.

"Nelly is black. That in and of itself is incrimating evidence. "

Without context, that sounds pretty bad. The second part doesn't really fix it (especially since he's the accused, not the accuser, so burden of proof isn't on him). That is why I needed to hear an explanation.

As for race relations in the US, not all black people face racial injustices and there isn't anything that gives an indication that that is what's happening here, either. 

You need to be in the outside looking in I guess? It's definitely an image the American media portrays, regardless of how accurate it is.