Comments by "" (@NinjaKittyBonks) on "" video.

  1. I understand much of what you were feeling. About 20 years back, I was pulled over in my car while driving down the freeway. The officers VERY first words were... "Do you have any guns, drugs or big wad of cash in your car?" I will not get into all the specific details of what happened on that shoulder of the highway, but I quickly figured out that somebody MUST have saw my high-performance sports car near a drug dealers house or something earlier that evening. He walked me to a fence about 20 feet away and placed a big German shepherd to bark and threaten me while he searched my car. He continued to ask... "are you SURE you don't have any guns, drugs or big wad of cash in your car" (multiple times over the course of 30 minutes) while going through every nook and cranny of my car and its possessions before dumping them on the ground. This went on from quite late to approaching midnight right there on the side of the freeway. I have no criminal history or been arrested, but the police must present themselves in a certain manor in these types of scenarios. At the end of this event, I was told that I could leave now and began to pick up the contents of everything that was not bolted down to put back into my car. I had been camping over the weekend, so tent, sleeping back and luggage items were all opened up and spread out on in the dirt next to my car. The feeling of being violated is the only way to describe this event. I was not raped or physically harmed, but since I had done absolutely NOTHING wrong, this treatment was very, very disturbing. I was quite pissed about that for a couple years and at this moment is actually quite vivid.... fuck EDIT: No ticket or apology was given by the two officers on scene
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  2. 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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