ah, that’s an interesting distinction - Black folks cannot avoid their fate as Black, but cops absolutely can choose a different profession.

In the past I have often wondered about the way the police profession preys on poor people (much like how recruitment of soldiers targets the most poor and desperate), and so historically I’ve favored a view that sees the process of becoming a police officer as at least somewhat coercive - there are economic factors that are coercive, but also a hegemonic culture of recruitment and indoctrination that is relevant to why the least educated and privileged among us become cops. That indoctrination does make those people class traitors, and I do think within the same context some people choose to take a different path - so I don’t see that system of coercion as total in the sense that cops don’t have any relevant choice or moral responsibility.

Regardless, it’s categorically different than being an oppressed minority that targets people based on fixed, biological traits.