An Actor On The Way To A Family Funeral Was Surprised By The Words The Policeman Screamed At Him

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53. I am an older white lady too

and have been stopped 2 x's in the past 8 years. Both times I was SCREAMED at by really angry white policemen. The first stop I was given a ticket for turning left at 9:59 am at a place that said no left turns from 7-10 am......plus I was screamed at- "what are you doing here?! " As though they thought that I was someone else....I had no idea why I wasn't supposed to be driving down a public road- and I do drive a bit slow, but not slow enough to be screamed at!. And my watch is 5 minutes fast so that I get to places on time......

The second time I was out on a country road between the town and my farm. Had just been helping with the shearing of sheep and my back was all seized up. I did an incomplete stop at a 4 way stop with no one on any of the other roads. But the highway patrolman just went off at me- how come he did not see my head turn to the left or right (hmm, you move 225 sheep through shoots for 2 days and let's see who easily you can turn your head!) how dare I not come to a complete stop! I had my daughter with me and she got really scared.

After these too incidents, which I believe were triggered by my very white hair, I said to myself "if they are this violent in speech to me- what are they doing to the poor people from Mexico and the African Americans?"

I am just aghast at the amping up of the violence of the police. And I am from a liberal county in N CA, no less.