content: Because blacks and hispanics know the police can fuck them up, that's basically the first thing their mother teaches them.  Whites frequently haven't had more than a traffic stop before.  Schools teach that authority figures are helpless to stop bullying or violence.  Add in that women experience considerably less violence or conflict than men, so they lack a frame of reference.  Then there are the women's defense courses that inflate a woman's sense of safety.  The end result is a perception of invincibility. Then you add the propaganda to spark these kinds of confrontations.