So, who here's been stop & frisked on basis of description "middle-aged white male, business suit"?
How many white grand-jury-deniers here on DU have ever been stopped by the police for driving or walking down the street in a suspicious area, where pedestrians or white drivers aren't usually seen, or detained and frisked for jaywalking? How many of you fit the profile of a middle-aged white person, i.e. prone to (white collar?) crime?
Inquiring minds want to know.
White person here, btw.
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I was crossing a bridge over the Chicago river. It was late and it was snowing hard so I cut across the middle of the street. An old cop was standing there all bundled up in a slicker and nailed me. He threatened me with a ticket and then asked for money instead. When I said I didn't have any he explained that it was customary to keep a $5 bill behind your drivers license at all times for just such contingencies. I was lucky. He let me off with a warning. 
The old police officer in the slicker in the rain was not.
Not that those criminals are often prosecuted.
A point that probably dovetails with white guys conveniently seeing everyone else as criminals?
I don't dispute that. Race and class are linked, but not just in the normal way people think -- in quite the opposite problem, really. Namely that the myth of white superiority and "middle class-ness" is actually propped up by the mistaken belief in cultural solidarity -- with the wealthy, who look like them, and who most people assume live like them and care about them, (and implicitly want to protect them from the "other"
but don't.
I.e. most white Americans identify with their bosses, and aspire to be like their bosses.
Unless their bosses happen to be black, or otherwise different from them. Lol.
That's all we needed to know. 
You were probably guilty of * something * I have had some friends who were Appalachian-American. It is too bad the racial divide in middle America prevents Scots-Irish from making common cause with the urban working class, as former Senator Jim Webb is always saying.
PS -- just kidding though, I hear you... the cop probably thought you were masquerading as a white person to avoid detection!
"Know them? I know these cops in my blood, man."
"Don't use that word... you'll get them excited." -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By Cassandra Rules on November 29, 2014
“You were making people nervous……they said you had your hands in your pockets.”
Pontiac, MI– Brandon B Waxx McKean was walking down the street Thursday when he was approached by a deputy for his “suspicious behavior” of walking down the street with his hands in his pockets.
“You were walking by,” the deputy states.
“Walking by and doing what?” McKean asked.
“You were making people nervous,” the deputy said.
“By walking by?”
“Yeah, they said you had your hands in your pockets.”
The officer then pulls out his IPhone and bizarrely begins filming McKean and acting as sweet and innocent as possible while asking what McKean is up to.
“Is it an inconvenience to talk to me right now?” the officer asks.
“Hell yeah, just because of the whole police situation going across the country- this is outrageous that you would let somebody tell you ‘oh there’s somebody walking down the street with their hands in their pockets’… there’s 10,000 people in Pontiac right now with their hands in their pockets!”
“You’re right, but we do have alot of robberies… so I’m just checking on you.”
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-stopped-snowy-weather-suspicious-act-walking-hands-pockets-black/#12yVHRQjou9ef1e2.99
TYY
Edit to add: I know you asked for white guys but that's a tall order. Meanwhile, this is just another example of what happens every day to people who get caught walking while being black.
been stopped, questioned, I'D or anything in my whole life. Actually police usually just smile or nod their heads to say hello. Gee I wonder why? 
