509rifas
Regular Member
This is something I'd always been afraid of: looking like a suspect while carrying all my gear (gun, knife, flashlight, extra mag, camera, etc) and dealing with trying to explain it. While in a "gang neighborhood," being in your 20s, etc.
I was stopped about 12:30 or 1 am for ostensibly matching the description of a suspect.
It was an overall OK encounter.
For those of you that will tell me that I could have asserted my rights at the moment the dispatch asked if I was "blonde, first of James" and they knew I had a CPL, I realize that. (it was after they ran the gun.)
He barely had the CPL before they called in with the next call and they gave me my stuff back in a hurry. I'm pretty sure the two officers were the entire shift in my town at the time. If not, there was one other (judging by what I can hear in the background for the radio transmissions.)
And please, before anyone says anything about them stopping me for being a "white male," I realize that is not RAS, but there are not many white males in my neighborhood. (According to statistics I've found through electoral stuff, my area is 10% white. So as far as the police's motives are concerned, it would be like if they got a call that a black male was prowling a house three blocks from where they ran into black male at 1 a.m. in Mercer Island, he'd be lucky to not get tazed (until they get the description of "bald, first of James" and the guy they have is dreadlocks, first of something else.) Both of the officers were white. I live in a primarily Chicano neighborhood in a primarily Chicano agricultural town. I don't feel infringed upon for being white. The officer did ask where I was coming from, and I answered "12th Street" and the incident was at 9th St which gave them me in the are. In the future I may decline to tell them where I was coming from because "last time I did that I ended up in handcuffs and it turned our I was the wrong guy", but I don't believe there was misconduct here. The only reason I'm going on about this is I remember extreme jerk-ish views from a number of angles when I was here before and I would like to pre-empt those and just focus on what happened.
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I can't seem to embed, se here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqPRGgh9a8
This happened in mid Feb 2013.
Here is one that happened about two weeks after that. A surprisingly positive experience.
http://youtu.be/LhWC0k3IoTU
I was stopped about 12:30 or 1 am for ostensibly matching the description of a suspect.
It was an overall OK encounter.
For those of you that will tell me that I could have asserted my rights at the moment the dispatch asked if I was "blonde, first of James" and they knew I had a CPL, I realize that. (it was after they ran the gun.)
He barely had the CPL before they called in with the next call and they gave me my stuff back in a hurry. I'm pretty sure the two officers were the entire shift in my town at the time. If not, there was one other (judging by what I can hear in the background for the radio transmissions.)
And please, before anyone says anything about them stopping me for being a "white male," I realize that is not RAS, but there are not many white males in my neighborhood. (According to statistics I've found through electoral stuff, my area is 10% white. So as far as the police's motives are concerned, it would be like if they got a call that a black male was prowling a house three blocks from where they ran into black male at 1 a.m. in Mercer Island, he'd be lucky to not get tazed (until they get the description of "bald, first of James" and the guy they have is dreadlocks, first of something else.) Both of the officers were white. I live in a primarily Chicano neighborhood in a primarily Chicano agricultural town. I don't feel infringed upon for being white. The officer did ask where I was coming from, and I answered "12th Street" and the incident was at 9th St which gave them me in the are. In the future I may decline to tell them where I was coming from because "last time I did that I ended up in handcuffs and it turned our I was the wrong guy", but I don't believe there was misconduct here. The only reason I'm going on about this is I remember extreme jerk-ish views from a number of angles when I was here before and I would like to pre-empt those and just focus on what happened.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-nqPRGgh9a8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I can't seem to embed, se here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqPRGgh9a8
This happened in mid Feb 2013.
Here is one that happened about two weeks after that. A surprisingly positive experience.
http://youtu.be/LhWC0k3IoTU
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