re: #75 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Unless you’re white. I had an officer stop me because my windows were, actually, tinted too dark in my old truck. (I didn’t put the tint on; I bought the truck with it in another state, and the previous owner was a smoker, which means the tint may have darkened if it wasn’t already too dark for MN.) I rolled down the window, he put the meter on it, told me my tint was too dark and that he’d let me off with a warning this time but I’d need to take it off, and wished me a nice day.

Got pulled over one night while driving a rental because the headlights weren’t set to auto and the streets were so well-lit that I didn’t realize the headlights weren’t on. In the middle of what’s colloquially known as “College Beach Weekend” where every douchebro for hundreds of miles descends on the beaches to get drunk, get high, and do stupid shit.

At the time I thought nothing of it. But now I have no doubt if I’d been black, instead of being told my lights were off and being sent on my way, I’d be sitting on the curb in cuffs while two cops scoured the interior as the third ran the plates to check if it was “stolen.”