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Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
Actually it's not. How is this guy a victim? The cop was DOING HIS JOB. Let's review:
* SOMEBODY called in this guy's plate number. There was a problem to start with.
* They were sitting in the car, loitering near a school on the side of an otherwise deserted public road.
* The cop asked a number of completely reasonable questions: have you been drinking? doing drugs? etc. -- reasonable especially considering the cop had a complaint related to THAT PLATE NUMBER and these two are just kind of hanging out on the side of a deserted road.
* Buddha admits, yeah, he uses pot.
Okay so what's the problem here?
The cop assumed Buddha uses pot? HE ADMITS THAT IT'S TRUE! That Buddha thinks the cop may have based this assumption on the way he dresses/grooms? Buddha admits this has been a problem in the past -- if it bothers you, change it.
This is like people who speed, then get pissed they were pulled over. You were speeding! And then you were a dick to the cop, and you're shocked you got a ticket?
The cop was doing his job, which was to investigate a complaint. You're not going to convince me a pot-smoking guy just chillin at the side of the road in a car with a plate number that's been called in as harassing kids at a school is in the right on this one.
Sorry.
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The problem is you initial comment. In no way is appropriate or even acceptable to judge some based on theior appearance. Just because she has dreads and wearing a Bob Marlet t-shirt does it mean that she smokes pot, was smoking pot, or ever has smoked pot. We don't know what she does and neither did this cop. Her attire should in no way reflect her behaviour and for this cop to do what he did was wrong, and so was your comment.
Cash, racial profiling is a big problem in many police departments.