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Heidi

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37. Yes, but I've more often been the beneficiary of police misconduct.

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:53 AM

Sep 2014

I'm a friendly white person who, when stopped by local police, has pleaded successfully "I'm late for work," "I just didn't know" and "I just didn't see" after being pulled over for speeding, once having expired tags, and rolling through a stop sign. That I got off with a warning is police misconduct and it reinforces a common mindset that some of us can get by with certain things while others can't. In this way, I benefited.

As to being a real victim of police misconduct, I've been that, too, but it was more a matter of local law enforcement corruption than any violation of my being or person.

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Have you ever been a victim of police misconduct? [View all] Quixote1818 Sep 2014 OP

When I was 15-years-old. Laffy Kat Sep 2014 #1

Take ur pants off? That's some kind of sexual deviancy. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #7

I'm pretty sure the School Resource Officer at my HS was grabbing a feel Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2014 #20

I was pulled over because I was driving an old rather ragged volvo 240. NutmegYankee Sep 2014 #2

Either that or you are... ReRe Sep 2014 #11

I was questioned as a child without any effort to have any adult present, LeftyMom Sep 2014 #3

I have been stopped for no reason twice, in my decades of driving. pnwmom Sep 2014 #4

Pulled over by drunk policeman. White/white. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #5

I was charged with PI for having MS. Downwinder Sep 2014 #6

Being extra happy in public Go Vols Sep 2014 #8

Yes, in a small town shake down speed trap... Tom Ripley Sep 2014 #9

it was 1969 hollysmom Sep 2014 #10

I got beat up horrendously by white cops, (I'm white). nilesobek Sep 2014 #12

Wow...just wow. N/T coyote Sep 2014 #32

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I was beat up and thrown in jail for sitting on a bench at a bus stop B Calm Sep 2014 #14

I was threatened with arrest Aerows Sep 2014 #15

I have dealt with many a cop.. sendero Sep 2014 #16

Speed trap in a small town when I was in my twenties. pacalo Sep 2014 #17

No Shankapotomus Sep 2014 #18

I've never had an interaction with the police where their actions weren't blatantly criminal Taitertots Sep 2014 #19

Yes, and I sued for false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution and won. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #21

In all fairness, I have to post a story of 'above and beyond' service from LAPD, years ago. mnhtnbb Sep 2014 #22

I often tell people, including the police, exactly what I'm thinking. And sometimes I'm a smart-ass hunter Sep 2014 #23

Once I was pulled over by a very furious officer treestar Sep 2014 #24

I was 17 years old. I was living in Long Island and a senior in H.S. and commuting to the city for stevenleser Sep 2014 #25

No I'm white, LOL! Corruption Inc Sep 2014 #26

I was admittedly marym625 Sep 2014 #27

Interesting that most of these stories are from women..... socialist_n_TN Sep 2014 #28

Not the police... pipi_k Sep 2014 #29

Yes, I am white rock Sep 2014 #30

A police Lt I barely knew hugged me and grabbed and squeezed whole handful of boob@ mom's wake. bettyellen Sep 2014 #31

Not sure if ever to the level of misconduct (crime), but harassed quite a few times MillennialDem Sep 2014 #33

I've had a couple mythology Sep 2014 #34

I am an upper middle-class white female from a small-ish university town in the Southwest distantearlywarning Sep 2014 #35

I'm 24 Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #36

Yes, but I've more often been the beneficiary of police misconduct. Heidi Sep 2014 #37

intersting the ration is 3/2 white and black. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #38

Yeah, in East Point, Georgia... kentuck Sep 2014 #39

DU is 90% white bananas Sep 2014 #40