When Traffic Stops Go Bad -- How Cops Demean Black and Brown Men

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54. Not saying it is right ...

But there are alot of things that go into a traffic stop. Unfortunatly race is one of those things.

When I was younger and drove a hot rodded up pick up with dark tint, custom wheels, and custom exhaust I got pulled over ... alot. I had long hair, always had sunglasses on, and my truck was loud and it stood out. Almost everytime I got pulled over I was searched, as was my truck. I was cocky and was never treated with respect by the "law".

Some 20 years later ... my last two cars have been an '11 red camaro, and now a '13 blue mustang. Both were/are stock, no wheels/tint/loud exhaust. Last ticket I got was for rolling a stop sign, cop was polite, told me what I did and wrote me a ticket with no event at all. Never asked me to get out of the vehicle, I never even shut it off. I was polite to him, he was to me ... I did roll the stop sign.

Not excusing the fat that profiling is done, but it is certainly done, on alot more things than race.