Even if not, not being given a hard time DESPITE our different races really is a sentence that comes with some baked in assumptions. Maybe hold higher standards here.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    35
    5 months ago

    Cops are good, one of them didn't harrass me because of my race! This is something to be praised and not just what should be expected as baseline human behavior

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
      hexbear
      11
      5 months ago

      wait what do people mean by Assigned Cop at Birth then

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
    hexbear
    21
    5 months ago

    Most of the cops I’ve interacted with have been nice and friendly. It doesn’t change the fact that if their superiors decided to beat and shoot me, they’ll likely turn the other way and not report anyone because they’re cowards who are afraid of being killed by their own “partners.”

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
    hexbear
    20
    5 months ago

    My first thought was, Asian American PMC type who lives in a bougie suburb who got pulled over to be given a friendly notice that his left taillight was out.

  • blobjim [he/him]
    hexbear
    19
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    "The fact I'm a woman was actually the much bigger problem to him so he didn't really lean into the race part". (I'm making this up)

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
    hexbear
    19
    5 months ago

    could be a a bougie poc who lives in a nice suburb. Those cops in my experience seem more bored than anything and are pretty chill compared to urban cops who have a much stronger racist streak. If anything, people in HOA's are worse than their local police.

  • ComRed2 [any]
    hexbear
    10
    5 months ago

    Some "I'm not racist, I have a black acquaintance" energy.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
    hexbear
    9
    5 months ago

    Even though I was Romulan and he was Klingon, we both laughed over our identical "fuck the Federation" bumper stickers

  • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]
    hexbear
    7
    5 months ago

    So this is a problem also because communities are being policed by people who don't have to live among them, but commute in from hours away