reply to post by Tiger5
Agreed. I have many horror stories to tell about being racially profiled growing up. Even though I can claim to be in that percentage of people
who have had zero trouble with the law, it still hasn't stopped the law from racially profiling me.
That last incident I just went through was as a grown adult. There were other cases growing up in Maryland as a teenager and young adult where I have
had the cops profile and pull their guns on me on at least several occasions. Thankfully no one was hurt but I think they used that as intimidation
more than anything, but you never know for sure.
I remember as a 17 year old driving my mom to work being pulled over by a cop who questioned me about my license plate being covered with a vanity
plate. He then wanted to know whose car it was. I told him it was mine and he didn't believe it. He finally let me go because he had nothing on me but
it was a waste of time and energy.
On another occasion I was walking home from work, around midnight, and having a light flashed in my eyes from afar. When i questioned who it was, they
yelled they were going to "blow my n****r head off if I didn't stop and identify myself". Since I couldn't tell who it was and what they wanted I
stopped and found out it was two white cops looking for someone who apparently robbed the local supermarket, they said. They could see I had on my
burger uniform so it couldn't have been me. We filed a complaint about that but again, I came this close to meeting my maker that night.
I also remember, as a youth, being pulled over by a cop because he thought I was mouthing off at him because he ran the stop sign in front of me. We
both arrived at a 4-way stop sign, he being on an adjacent street diagonal to the intersection. Even though I got there clearly ahead of him, he just
continued to roll right through the stop sign causing me to brake up. He looked me straight in the eye then proceeded to stop, back up and circle
around to pull me over. He then walked up (all the time i had my 13 year old nephew in the car with me), pulled out his gun and knocked on my window.
I rolled it down and asked him what he wanted. He asked me why I was "eyeballing him". I told him no reason. He then just walked back to his car and
left the area. I was good enough to get his name from his uniform and filed a complaint at the local station.
The funny thing was the first female officer at the station didn't believe my story. I could overhear her telling another fellow officer "Could you
believe that kid? Humph, he thinks Officer "blankety blank"was after him with his weapon drawn." I was finally able to get another officer to take the
complaint and she asked me if I wanted to have it put in his file for further reference, which I had her do.
These were just some of the things I had to go through being profiled by cops. My brothers and cousins had more horror stories than I did and they are
also upstanding citizens today, some very successful in their walks of life.
edit on 17-7-2013 by Jaellma because: (no reason given)
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