On Monday, Blow wrote about another young black man’s encounter with policehis son, who was allegedly held at gunpoint on the Yale University campus where he’s a student.
Blow took to Twitter on Sunday, writing that he was “fuming” after his son called to tell him what happened Saturday — that he was walking out of the library when university police “accosted” him and drew their weapons. Blow tweeted that his son was detained because he “fit the description” of a suspect.
Blow’s son was released, he said, and Yale has said that the real suspect was arrested later in another area of campus.
So, my son, a 3rd year chem major at Yale was just accosted – at GUN POINT – by a Yale policeman bc he "fit the description" of a suspect…
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But he wants answers.
“Why was a gun drawn first? Why was he not immediately told why he was being detained? Why not ask for ID first? 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.,” Blow wrote.
“This is the scenario I have always dreaded: my son at the wrong end of a gun barrel, face down on the concrete,” he added. “I had always dreaded the moment that we would share stories about encounters with the police in which our lives hung in the balance, intergenerational stories of joining the inglorious ‘club.'”
