# Blacks get lassoed by white men on horseback and paraded through Texas town... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278 "2019-08-06T23:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/1 "2019-08-06T23:29:22Z")
[Nah, that isn’t racist at all or even a little bit scary](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-police-department-under-fire-193520279.html) given the history of lynchings of Black in the South. Not only should those “officers” be fired, the police chief should be run out of town on a rail for his lame excuse of their stupid stunt. ---
**Author:** ![Rayks\_Marcial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rayks\_Marcial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayks_Marcial)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/2 "2019-08-06T23:35:30Z")
Looked hard at it. Makes you angry but then, I used to wonder as a kid how the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson would bring in a desperado with just one horse (theirs.) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/3 "2019-08-07T00:11:50Z")
> [@Rayks\_Marcial](#): > > Looked hard at it. Makes you angry but then, I used to wonder as a kid how the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson would bring in a desperado with just one horse (theirs.) Fuck off right back to stormfront. ---
**Author:** ![Rayks\_Marcial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rayks\_Marcial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayks_Marcial)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/4 "2019-08-07T00:14:44Z")
Do they accept someone 75% austronesian and 25% Japanese? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/5 "2019-08-07T00:21:16Z")
> [@Rayks\_Marcial](#): > > Looked hard at it. Makes you angry but then, I used to wonder as a kid how the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson would bring in a desperado with just one horse (theirs.) They didn’t have radios back then. Unlike now. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/6 "2019-08-07T00:22:33Z")
> [@Rayks\_Marcial](#): > > Do they accept someone 75% austronesian and 25% Japanese? Which, of course, you are not, regardless of what you’re pretending here. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/7 "2019-08-07T00:22:46Z")
How can any normal human being think this was a good idea? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/8 "2019-08-07T00:25:03Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How can any normal human being think this was a good idea? It’s Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/9 "2019-08-07T00:25:27Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > How can any normal human being think this was a good idea? Apparently “New Normal” human beings\* think it’s just tickety-boo. \*allegedly ---
**Author:** ![Rayks\_Marcial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rayks\_Marcial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayks_Marcial)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/10 "2019-08-07T00:25:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Which, of course, you are not, regardless of what you’re pretending here. Not even a crick of a feeling that I’m telling the truth? Funny little Nazi hunters. So sure about everything. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/11 "2019-08-07T00:29:16Z")
> [@Rayks\_Marcial](#): > > **Not even a crick of a feeling that I’m telling the truth?** Funny little Nazi hunters. So sure about everything. Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/12 "2019-08-07T00:33:21Z")
One option: not feeding the obvious troll. Galveston is not standing by the ‘roping black man’ practice, it would seem: > [@](#): > > “A transportation unit was not immediately available at the time of the arrest,” said a statement from the department. So Neely “was handcuffed and a line was clipped to the handcuffs,” and the officer clutched the other end of the line, leading Neely. > > The officers were “familiar” with Neely, and he had been warned about trespassing, the statement said. He was led on the rope about two blocks to “where the Mounted Patrol Unit was staging from.” > > The method of handcuffing someone and escorting them between two mounted officers is usually used in volatile situations, like crowd control. > > “The practice was not used correctly in this instance,” the police statement said. > > “I believe our officers showed poor judgment in this instance and could have waited for a transport unit at the location of the arrest,” said Galveston Police Department Chief Vernon L. Hale. “I must apologize to Mister Neely for this unnecessary embarrassment.” [Texas officers on horses led handcuffed black man by a rope](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/photos-texas-officers-horses-leading-handcuffed-black-man-rope-sparks-n1039546) ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/13 "2019-08-07T00:51:36Z")
Is it really that hard for the cops to say “sorry, no cars are available right this instant. Just sit tight on the curb there until we can get transpo”? I just don’t get this at all. Actual human beings thought “Let’s lead him with a rope on our horses”? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/14 "2019-08-07T01:50:28Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Is it really that hard for the cops to say “sorry, no cars are available right this instant. Just sit tight on the curb there until we can get transpo”? > > I just don’t get this at all. Actual human beings thought “Let’s lead him with a rope on our horses”? More importantly, let’s march someone charged with **trespassing** 8\* blocks, handcuffed with a rope lead. \*One article states 8 blocks, the other 2 blocks. Neither makes it smart. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/15 "2019-08-07T07:30:17Z")
The marshal’s banned? Who knew that would happen? I mean besides everyone? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/16 "2019-08-07T10:46:31Z")
C’mon, it’s not like they tied the rope around his neck. See, even Texas is making progress! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/17 "2019-08-07T12:27:19Z")
Police representative on the stand : “As god is my witness, I thought that’s how it was done in Texas !” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/18 "2019-08-07T12:30:17Z")
There were two mounted cops. This isn’t rocket science: cop #1 dismounts and hands his reins to cop #2. Cop #1 _walks_ Neely (the handcuffed man) to wherever he needs to take him. I’d hate to think they were a couple of racist pigs, but I’d also hate to think they had too few functioning brain cells to figure that out. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/19 "2019-08-07T12:34:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Nah, that isn’t racist at all or even a little bit scary](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-police-department-under-fire-193520279.html) given the history of lynchings of Black in the South. Not only should those “officers” be fired, the police chief should be run out of town on a rail for his lame excuse of their stupid stunt. I don’t care if this was accepted practice under certain circumstances, or whatever else bullshit the cops there claim. How any breathing human in 2019 thought for a second that this was OK is un-fucking believable. Fucking cops sometimes, Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278/20 "2019-08-07T13:01:58Z")
Boy, Tucker Carlson was right. White supremacy in the US is a ‘hoax’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-get-lassoed-by-white-men-on-horseback-and-paraded-through-texas-town/838278.md?page=2)