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In reply to the discussion: Do you feel comfortable with your local cops? [View all]AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)And I have only had one experience worth of trouble from cops in my life. I am definitely brown, and look ethnic Hispanic and Russian (well actually Tatar, but I say Russian because no one knows what a Tatar is). Dark Skin, brown hair, blue grey eyes. I have been stopped for speeding in 7 states and was always treated cordially by police. Been arrested twice (once for a bar fight when I was 21 in Hartford, Connecticut and once in Killeen, Texas. I am very aware that there are more than a few fascist pricks on the police force, but in my life the only cop that ever treated me badly was a Hispanic cop in Reno, Nevada. Stopped me for speeding and took one look at me and started grilling me in Spanish, I don't speak Spanish at all, my parents were Russian and Hispanic, English was what we spoke at home. So he got pissed, I produced my military ID and that made him even angrier. He gave me a ticket and proceeded to tell me if he ever stopped me again I would be sorry. To this day I have no idea what pissed him off. I am always polite.