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Journalist's fury after his Yale student son was held at gunpoint by police because he 'fitted the description' of a suspect
By DAVID MCCORMACK FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:24 GMT, 26 January 2015 | UPDATED: 17:34 GMT, 26 January 2015
A journalist has written about his anger after his son was held by police at gunpoint on the Yale University campus over the weekend because he 'fitted the description' of an alleged burglary suspect.
Blow, who is African American, tweeted about the incident on Saturday night when he said he was 'fuming' and also wrote about it in his column in Monday's New York Times.
In his column Blow related his son's version of events, in which the young man – a third year biology major - was accosted by a campus police officer at gunpoint as he left the library.
The officer told Blow's son to get on the ground and then asked a series of questions before he was eventually allowed to go on his way after showing his student ID.
According to Blow, his anger with the situation was not that his son was stopped, but that the officer had been so quick to brandish his weapon.
'What if my son had panicked under the stress, having never had a gun pointed at him before, and made what the officer considered a 'suspicious' movement? Had I come close to losing him? Triggers cannot be unpulled. Bullets cannot be called back,' he wrote.
The journalist, who is also a regular contributor to CNN and MSNBC, has written extensively about the recent deaths of unarmed black men - including Michael Brown and Eric Garner - at the hands of the police.
Blow's anger was more apparent in a series of tweets posted on Saturday night when used hashtags including '#RacialBattleFatigue', '#BlackLivesMatter' and '#ICan'tBreathe'.
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- New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote that he wasn't angry his son was stopped, but that the cop had been so quick to brandish his weapon
- 'Had I come close to losing him? Triggers cannot be unpulled. Bullets cannot be called back,' he wrote
- Blow has written extensively about the recent deaths of unarmed black men including Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of the police
By DAVID MCCORMACK FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:24 GMT, 26 January 2015 | UPDATED: 17:34 GMT, 26 January 2015
A journalist has written about his anger after his son was held by police at gunpoint on the Yale University campus over the weekend because he 'fitted the description' of an alleged burglary suspect.
Blow, who is African American, tweeted about the incident on Saturday night when he said he was 'fuming' and also wrote about it in his column in Monday's New York Times.
In his column Blow related his son's version of events, in which the young man – a third year biology major - was accosted by a campus police officer at gunpoint as he left the library.
The officer told Blow's son to get on the ground and then asked a series of questions before he was eventually allowed to go on his way after showing his student ID.
According to Blow, his anger with the situation was not that his son was stopped, but that the officer had been so quick to brandish his weapon.
'What if my son had panicked under the stress, having never had a gun pointed at him before, and made what the officer considered a 'suspicious' movement? Had I come close to losing him? Triggers cannot be unpulled. Bullets cannot be called back,' he wrote.
The journalist, who is also a regular contributor to CNN and MSNBC, has written extensively about the recent deaths of unarmed black men - including Michael Brown and Eric Garner - at the hands of the police.
Blow's anger was more apparent in a series of tweets posted on Saturday night when used hashtags including '#RacialBattleFatigue', '#BlackLivesMatter' and '#ICan'tBreathe'.
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