NAACP Holds Detroit Seminar Teaching Black Youth How to Deal With Police

On Saturday, the NAACP apparently held a seminar in Detroit designed to teach black youths how to deal with police officers without the situation escalating to violence or arrest. The title of the seminar was, “A Youth Survival Guide for Police Encounters.”

Surprisingly, the NAACP has taken criticism from the left. Darrell Dawsey of Deadline Detroit said that he thought police should be trained to deal with youths, not vice versa. He also said he thought it was racist of the NAACP to target just black youths to talk about the issue. “They don’t teach young white kids how to handle police,” said Dawsey. “Police don’t shoot young white kids.”