Sad thing is Lynn, some don't and won't get it.  Some people in this world lack empathy.  Some only care about themselves.  Some assume because it is a young black man he deserves to be stopped, or because they are poor they aren't citizens of this country and don't deserve anything other than what they get.  Some seem to really believe, talk, and act as though the constitution of this country doesn't apply to "those people."  

Some think that "others" are just less than human and treat them that way.  So much for a free country.   Greg's son isn't the only one he's in good company.  It happens to lots of people of color, and lots of poor whites, too.  Here in Eugene, Portland, all over this so called "civilized" nation.  

But some people think that is just fine, because it isn't them. If it doesn't happen to them, then it just doesn't happen.  That is the sad truth of ethnocentrism.