If this officer had been black, you would have concluded that the officer was racist, but since he's white, he's merely brutal. The point of this article is not to say racism is not a factor in some policing misactions or actions in the black community, but that there are racists in the American police force but the American police force is not institutionally racist. And, please, if your response is to argue back, I really don't have the strength for that, and rude comments will be deleted.