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jps

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:43:37 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:08:23 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:51:24 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"H K" wrote in message
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People of color have every reason to be suspicious of cops.

Harry's contribution to the social/intellectual progress of multiracial
respect and understanding.

I take it you don't have friends who've been racially profiled. I
have first hand experience and let me tell you that it's ugly.

I was riding with a friend in South LA in a completely legal, properly
registered car with nothing wrong, no traffic infraction when we were
pulled over.

I was asked by the *BLACK COP* if I were okay and if I could vouch for
my friend. I looked at him and asked why the hell he required
vouching for? Why didn't he have to vouch for me? He didn't respond.

How would you like that sort of treatment for your skin color?

This is an everyday occurance in the black community. They've grown
up with it and come to expect they're prone to become subjects of
baseless, arbitrary harassment.

I got a ticket in Md for driving while being a cracker (Florida tags)
from a black state trooper and he actually called me "a cracker" to
the other cop who was there.
The funny thing was I really lived in Md at the time.
The unfunny thing was I wasn't speeding. Even the other cop laughed
when he heard the black cop trying to explain it since they were
running together (2 cars) at the time and his "pace" didn't come out
the same.
They ended up calling it 5 over but I still got the ticket, not a
warning or something ... and I was nice. I mailed in the 20 bucks.

How did it feel? Pretty stinky.

Expect your experience is 1% of what happens in the other direction.