There's a movie called "Surviving The Game" starring Ice-T that came out in 1994 where he plays a homeless dude who goes on a hunting trip with some rich white guys thinking he's going to be a hunting guide, but ends up being the hunted...their prey.
After I saw that flick, I vowed I'd never go hunting with white people. But seriously, whether I actually go hunting or not, I--although a law-abiding citizen--could end up the "urban prey" of overzealous racist cops or even some untrained rich guy who gives the police chief or county sheriff gifts in exchange for the opportunity to play cop with a loaded weapon, ala Bob Bates in Tulsa, Okla.--who by the way is on his way to a vacation in the Bahamas after murdering Eric Harris. I guess Bates saying, "I shot him. I'm sorry." was enough for the judge to grant him a low bail amount and approve his tropical vacation.
Anyway, this is not hyperbole on my part. It really does feel like open season on black men in America for law enforcement officials...and whether we run or not, whether we're criminals or not, we stand a much better chance of being accosted and perhaps shot by police officers than white or Latino men.
That's a historical fact. Going back to slavery days through today. Even now in the 21st Century and in spite (and perhaps due to) our first black President, incidents of police officers sending unarmed young black men to early graves under dubious circumstances are on the rise. Go down the line from Oscar Grant to Eric Garner to John Crawford to Tamir Rice to Eric Harris to Walter Scott to Freddie Gray...the list goes on and on--with no end in sight.
Given those murderous atrocities, the question shouldn't be: Why do black men run from cops?" Rather: "Why shouldn't black men run from cops?"