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43. What a nightmare!

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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 08:50 PM

Dec 2015

This is a horror story, I'm all sweaty and shaking.

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I fit the description�. [View all] Photographer Dec 2015 OP

"You match the description..." Is cover for harassing. NightWatcher Dec 2015 #1

Aside from everything else, how is that jacket a puffy coat, or even a puffy jacket? merrily Dec 2015 #2

Wearing a hat and a jacket... TeeYiYi Dec 2015 #7

Of course. merrily Dec 2015 #8

Omigod. Never before have I so clearly felt what detention is like. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2015 #3

That's the way it hit me... Photographer Dec 2015 #6

Me too. cyberswede Dec 2015 #27

It had a very informative and focused impact passiveporcupine Dec 2015 #17

That used to happen to this white boy all the fucking time on Dead Tour when I had long hair TransitJohn Dec 2015 #28

Yep, I hear you. I went through (at least) some of that bullshit. Hey, girly boy! (fuck!) BlueJazz Dec 2015 #67

This is why, whenever we have occasion, we must bear witness to what happens in our society. . . Journeyman Dec 2015 #4

Makes me feel ill, and ashamed to be white..... We have to fix the pervasive institutional racism peacebird Dec 2015 #5

About that.... Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #13

It's survivor's guilt passiveporcupine Dec 2015 #18

Good article, too bad it had to be written. Hoyt Dec 2015 #9

You're a bit younger than me, but we don't dress all that differently. HuckleB Dec 2015 #10

That's not me, it's the author of the piece. Photographer Dec 2015 #12

Ah, I thought you were the author. I guess I need a nap! HuckleB Dec 2015 #16

I thought it was you, going by title and nothing naysaying that impression in the excerpt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2015 #32

I think you may be right and will come up with something. Photographer Dec 2015 #33

I got pulled over today fbc Dec 2015 #11

That was a great piece. Thanks for sharing that. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #14

this is the part that gets me... nashville_brook Dec 2015 #15

White, stocky, bearded. Yup, fits the description. Wasn't he last seen in Colorado Springs? Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2015 #19

Hundreds of times a day. fuck. MerryBlooms Dec 2015 #20

Thank You For Sharing The Reality That All Too Many In "Amerika" Face Today cantbeserious Dec 2015 #21

This brought me to tears MissDeeds Dec 2015 #22

Some 50 years ago I read a book, safeinOhio Dec 2015 #23

One of three books I read in 1968 that influenced all that followed. n/t malthaussen Dec 2015 #44

+1 Enthusiast Dec 2015 #57

This message was self-deleted by its author safeinOhio Dec 2015 #24

I feel like I'm shaking, after reading the link... SoapBox Dec 2015 #25

This breaks my heart. kaiden Dec 2015 #26

I have had that exact same thing happen to me melman Dec 2015 #29

You probably weren't playing the scenes of unarmed, dead black people in the streets, in your head jtuck004 Dec 2015 #40

It's those "thug" pants obviously shadowmayor Dec 2015 #30

No, I didn't write this. It's by the gentleman in the link. Photographer Dec 2015 #36

Oops shadowmayor Dec 2015 #37

It's an on-going American tragedy. Paka Dec 2015 #31

like others, I was shaking read this napkinz Dec 2015 #34

Why do people fear police? Downwinder Dec 2015 #35

In my younger days in Silicon Valley Mr.Bill Dec 2015 #38

It doesn't work for me either arikara Dec 2015 #49

After reading this, I sat here and cried. mountain grammy Dec 2015 #39

Oh my word... i am so frightened and pissed at the same time. onecaliberal Dec 2015 #41

K&R... spanone Dec 2015 #42

What a nightmare! BeanMusical Dec 2015 #43

"Please don't leave, sister." retrowire Dec 2015 #45

i always wish i could just hug all the little black boys i could. i DON'T hate you. pansypoo53219 Dec 2015 #46

One night I woke up to several voices yelling. livingonearth Dec 2015 #47

This is so infuriating Marrah_G Dec 2015 #48

K&R smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #50

That's just wrong for an American citizen to endure that DashOneBravo Dec 2015 #51

Holy shit liberalnarb Dec 2015 #52

I didn't write this. There's a disclaimer at the top of the post. But it is a well done piece. Photographer Dec 2015 #53

I'm out of it today liberalnarb Dec 2015 #54

No prob. You're not the first. Photographer Dec 2015 #55

Kicked and recommended! Wake the fuck up, people. Recommend this thing too. Enthusiast Dec 2015 #56

K&R for perspective JohnnyRingo Dec 2015 #58

The Fort Drum MPs tried that shit on me once jmowreader Dec 2015 #59

Kick Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #60

This is no less than terrifying. BlueMTexpat Dec 2015 #61

A black man wearing clothes ? King_Klonopin Dec 2015 #62

I lived in JP for 4 years when I moved to Boston robbob Dec 2015 #69

Thanks for the cool story with a great lesson. King_Klonopin Dec 2015 #70

Driving While Black. n/t Le Taz Hot Dec 2015 #63

I had to read most of that looking through tears madokie Dec 2015 #64

Bone-chilling... ewagner Dec 2015 #65

I got a taste of what this is like in December of 2001. Dustlawyer Dec 2015 #66

I've had that happen a couple times in my life Lordquinton Dec 2015 #68

A sizable chunk of the USA lives in a police state. Hekate Dec 2015 #71