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In reply to the discussion: Penelope Soto, my hero: Florida teen flipping the finger at abusive judge [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)courage my ass. More like stupidity and being high.
I pulled something akin to what she did when I was in my early 20's. I was with my boyfriend driving in NH. We got stopped. They were being physical to him for no reason other than that he was black. He wasn't under the influence. He'd just played a gig. I objected and got very mouthy. We both got handcuffed and thrown in jail. As he said afterward, if I'd kept my mouth shut he would have handled it. He was probably right. We were lucky. Both of us were let out after we called our parents. His dad was a prof at Harvard Medical School and mine did business in NH and knew the Governor. We were actually released and apologized to- which never would have happened if we weren't from "nice" upper middle class families and our dads hadn't pulled strings.
At least I was reacting to genuine bigotry and abuse of power even if it was stupid.