Comments by "" (@NinjaKittyBonks) on "Sydney Watson"
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No.... the makers of this video and I were treated with suspicion due to circumstances and how authorities are trained to respond in such circumstances.
We know why the Sydney & Avi were under suspicion, but I am left to guess, as they never told me anything. I can really only come to one reasonable conclusion and is that somebody called the police about me. As mentioned earlier...... never been arrested, so no drunk driving or criminal history. I got a ticket 15 years earlier for smoking a joint, but did not get a ride in a police car as a result. The most likely scenario is that I was unknowingly parked near a drug dealers house and neighbor called police. Maybe a friend of a friend was a dealer and the cops figured I was a courier or something....?
What I can say, is that none of those that have been discussed here were black. I am a white male, that was about 160lbs. & 35 at this time and was treated with the suspicion of one who was dealing drugs. I was wearing a t-shirt that was tucked into my denim blue jeans, so easy to see that there was no gun in my pockets. Even so, I was not personally searched, but if my hands were not visible at all times, they were VERY quick to remind me of that fact. There was always one of them looking directly at me and if one was speaking to me, the other was 10 feet behind, 5 feet to the side and reading my every move and posture change. I understand that up until the time all this was over and they were convinced I was NOT who they thought or were lead to believe I was, they MUST be on on the ready for anything I might do.
What both of these stories illustrate is that when the police have reason to think you guilty of something, they have set formulas on how they address you. So if they are mistaken, if the neighbor who called them is mistaken or one is just in the wrong spot at the wrong time, the police will treat EVERYONE like they are "black".
That is another way of saying, that just because you were detained like Sydney, Avi or myself, the authorities
are going to respond in specific ways. If the any of the above happens and you are black, you cannot automatically say that I was pulled over for "Driving While Black" and blame racism as the only reason why.
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