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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 11:47 PM
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So my boss was racially profiled last night....
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My boss is an American Indian. Last night, he was walking home and happened, for some unknown reason, to zigzag while walking on the sidewalk to his apartment, and a cop jumped out of the bushes and stopped him from entering, then proceeded to browbeat him for twenty minutes for no fucking reason....I guess his pretense was that his irregular walking pattern made the cop think he might be a drunken burglar.

The weirdest thing about this story is that my boss, a couple years ago, was running down the street to return a video to Blockbuster on time (and he's an athletic guy, too, who enjoys running.)

A cop stopped him and questioned him for over an hour and was prepared to arrest him on suspicion of burglary...or for just having dark skin.

The kicker? It was the same cop, both times.

I am not making this shit up.

"You know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white." -Frank Zappa
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