Am I the only one that's sick and tired of feeling bad for victims of police violence?

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39. Your white world's nothing like mine

I'm a white woman, and I've been harassed by cops on more than one occasion. Once I was arrested on bullshit charges, and forced to go to anger management classes...even though I didn't do anything I was accused of. Everyone else in these expensive (and stupid) classes was white, and they were arrested for stupid things, too--like a father and son getting into a loud argument on Thanksgiving. It was a warm day, their windows were open...and the neighbors, who disliked that family, called the police on them.

Since then, I'm exceedingly cautious about police. Just the other day when I left a neighboring city, a State Trooper car came out onto the rural highway behind me. My blood ran cold, as it was only my vehicle and his out there. No witnesses? No thanks.

Hoping he wouldn't find it suspicious, I turned on another road at the edge of town, to go back into the city. I wanted to see if he would follow me. Thankfully, he didn't.

But I had to drive a few miles out of my way, and my heart was racing as I did so.

People need to wake up and realize, it's not just a racial problem. It's a problem with an increasingly militarized police force, who can use their authority at will to ruin (or end) someone's life.

Don't sit there and think nothing can happen to you, just because you're white. Just ask the young, white Occupy protesters how cops treated them while peacefully protesting.

As long as we make it about race, people will just shrug and think some violent hood rat brought it upon himself. We need to show how this is happening to all people of all races, and THEN they'll care. But until that happens, police incidents will keep occuring, because the majority of people think they're safe.