Minnesota officer meant to draw Taser, not handgun

[Moostache]

12. Let me paint a different picture...

A few years ago, I - as a white male - was pulled over for speeding. The officer pulled me over on a very busy freeway and took my license and registration to his car. No back up unit was called in. No second officer was approaching the car from the opposite direction. Just one cop, one perp (me) and a document exchange.

Turned out that I actually had a warrant sworn out for my arrest for an unpaid traffic ticket (expired state tags) from 3 years earlier...I legitimately had no idea that there was a warrant out for me and was quite surprised.

So how did this exchange end?

1) Back-up was called in, lights and sirens were turned on and I was hauled from the vehicle and slammed to the pavement as a display to passing traffic that the police are in charge and not to be challenged?

2) I was arrested by the stopping officer and made to appear in court to answer to the derelict charges from 3 years prior?

3) I was let go with a warning to "take care of that ticket" and went on my merry way?

If you are an American male - white or black - you already KNOW the answer by my self-identified racial category of "white male".

I walked away from a traffic stop for speeding without so much as a citation for the actual offense because I was white and the officer was white and he did not feel like drowning in paperwork all afternoon on account of my "dumb ass".

If I were black, that scenario plays out diametrically differently.
THAT is the root of the problem.
Officers that cannot tell a pistol from a taser is simply another element of the problem to add on.