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Have you ever been pulled over for DWH?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) August 29th, 2014

I can count about seven times in my life I can classify I was pulled over for DWB (driving while Black). The very 1st time was with my second car, a 1973 Dodge Challenger, yes it was nice, my brother and I were leaving the pool hall/arcade heading home and we passed a prowl car sitting in a nearby parking lot. Right after we passed the cop zipped out into the roadway. I told my brother that there was a cop tailing us, he did not believe me. I told him I bet we don’t make the intersection before we get pulled over, sure enough; the cop hits us with the “bubblegum lights” and pulls us over. I was not speeding as traffic was not allowing it. From the questions the cops was asking it was as if he was trying to determine if I stole the car or if it was indeed mine. That was just one of many times I was stopped not for any driving offence but from what I gather was being in the wrong neighborhood too late at night, too late in too nice of a car, too late in a beater, in broad daylight in the wrong car or place, etc. but hardly for speeding or some traffic infraction. If you are Hispanic, do you believe you were ever stopped simply because you are Hispanic (DWH)? If so, what make you believe so, or how did it happen?

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