Poll on police abuse of power

[MrScorpio]

89. As a black kid, riding a bike he bought with his own money, in a predominantly white neighborhood

Going home from the mall and stopped at a stop sign while waiting for traffic to pass... To a couple of suburban white cops, that must mean that I'm suspected of stealing that bike.

So, pull up behind that black kid, order him off his own bike and threaten to beat the shit out of him as he objected to his own bike being wrested from his own hands.

After checking the serial number and finding out that the bike was never reported stolen in the first place (after all, I bought the damn thing and I was riding it at the time), that doesn't mean that the two white officers are not a couple of suburban racist pricks.

At the time, I never had any issues with city cops in Detroit, but merely being black on the other side of Eight Mile Road at that time was always a tricky endeavor.