(February 14, 2017 at 9:38 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote:(February 14, 2017 at 8:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: This is overly idealistic. I'm saying that as someone with LEOs in my family.
Especially for people of the, ahem... African American persuasion...
Edit: (and I just mean *statistically*... in some places...)
There's that, of course. I can only speak from second-hand experience, but as a member of an interracial family, I know my brother-in-law and nephew get stopped and questioned for shit that won't get me much attention.
And as a white guy with an often unconventional appearance when I was younger, I've been stopped and bothered enough to find their stories very believable.