Suspicious activity at California shooter's home not reported due to fear of racism.

[Catholic_Lady]

The man didn't seem to go into too much detail. But whatever it was, it was enough to make him suspicious enough to consider alerting the police... though ultimately decided not to.

Oh, right - AFTER the fact somebody says they were suspicious. LOL And no details - yeah, that sounds legit. Are you even serious?

You do realize, that racists are suspicious every time they see a brown person in their neighborhood, right? And that hindsight is 20/20? Whenever ANYTHING happens, someone goes: "I knew it!". It's human nature.

Here's a quote from one of the articles, the link to which you provided:

A man who has been working in the area said he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people.

WOW! "Half a dozen Middle-Eastern men in the area"! I would have called the National Guard, right there and then.

smh

I think I addressed these sentiments here:

I think that's the point, though. It would probably not have been suspicious to that man if they had been a group of white women coming in and out of that apartment all the time. It was the fact that it was Arab men that caught his attention and made him feel uneasy. This does seem extremely racist, which is why he did not report it to police. But then the problem is of course that 14 people are now dead and the shooters were the folks living in the house where the man saw what seemed suspicious to him.

With that being said, I think Aroura raises a good point. Even if that man HAD called the police, it is doubtful that they would have gone inside the apartment, seen all the bombs/etc, and stopped those 14 people from being killed. 

... But what if the scenario was that the man reported it, the cops came, found the stuff, and it had saved 14 people? Would it then be justifiable for that man to have called the police based on racism? I've been thinking about it and I'm starting to think not. If we live in a world where we get suspicious of people simply because of their race and religion, the terrorists have won. We can't let them win.