Worries

[BrokenQuill92]

What’s truly frightening is that I’m always afraid they might kill from several feet away and they won’t even try to get my attention first. They’ll just open fire. No explanation. No warning. I’ll never see it coming…Like poor Tamir Rice. And I live only a few miles from where he was killed.

Like a fear of sharks - you are reacting emotionally. Reason and logic tell you that the odds of sharkbite or being shot by police is miniscule compared to many everyday activities you are totally comfortable with.

Do you drive or ride in motor vehicles? Those are dangerous - but few people are afraid of them.

I don’t think it’s irrational. Not when I don’t have the advantage of eyesight. And cops have killed people for less…

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Wasn’t sure where post this… In the increasingly crazy rise of white supremacy in the US I’m seriously fearful of my safety. With more and more videos of cops killing unarmed black people, carrying a cane makes me nervous. I’m terrified that some upjumped cop will “mistake” my cane for a weapon and kill me. Am I being paranoid?

No, you are American.

Even over here the police tazed a blind man thinking his cane was a sword.

If you’re talking about the guy from Manchester I actually kinda know him . Casual acquaintance he gives speeches about Braille literacy at International Councils of the Blind.