re: Why is having the "police talk" with your children an issue?

This is a black activist talking point. All responsible parents ought to have this talk with this kids, and it should ramp up when they begin to drive on their own.

Most of it is simple stuff. Be respectful. Ask permission to reach for anything in the car before doing so. Keep your hands on the wheel unless instructed to do otherwise. if at night, turn your inside lights on before the LEO gets to you if pulled over. Even if you think he's wrong or is being a dick, stay clam and do not argue about it on the side of the road. You can address any issues later, but you're NEVER going to win an argument with a cop on the side of the road and you're going to make the situation potentially dangerous.

Of course, this is a much easier conversation if you've already raised kids that are generally respectful to others, generally follow the rules, generally behave themselves, and will generally listen to your when you have something important like this to tell them.

Suggesting this is somehow a "blacks only" conversation that black MUST have in order to save their lives is so silly. Again, all responsible parents should be having it, and secondly...it's pretty fricking clear based on the evidence that black families by and large are not having the conversation at all or else most of these resisting arrest deaths would have never occurred.