Because he was white Despite still being stuck on the desk, I had a court appearance yesterday on a case I should have written about ages ago. I forgot about it until I showed up for court and read my report. Since I'm notmaking any new stories at the moment, I thought I'd tell you all about it :) To set this up, you have to understand the type of neighborhood I work in. It's very "diverse," with large populationsof Blacks, Hispanics (mostly illegals), and Whites. It's always a guarantee you've found the right suspect when they say, "You only stopped me because I'm [fill in the blank]." Reasonable, innocent, normal everyday minority citizens do NOT "play the race card," and it seems to make them angrier than it does me when someone does. At 0300 in the morning, how in the HELL am I supposed to see the race of a person I pull over until AFTER I've stopped them? I can't of course, so the accusation is always baseless. As a side note, it's a guarantee I'll write every single silly little violation I can prove when someone pulls that crap on a traffic stop. Restricted to corrective lenses which you're not wearing? Ticket. License plate light burned out? Ticket. Cracked windshield? Ticket. Forgot to sign the back of your registration? Ticket. Oh yeah, let's add the reason I stopped you for and ticket that, too. You get the picture. Most normal people understand that cops don't racially "profile" people; therefore only true dirtbags try it to see if they can intimidate me into letting them go for fear of being labeled a racist. It doesn't work :) There's your set up, here's the story: So there I was... A patrol officer had made a traffic stop and requested a DUI unit, and I was dispatched. I arrived on scene. The driver had been coming from the downtown area, and was a WHITE middle-class, Joe Q. Public kind of guy. I put him through the roadsides, which he miserably failed. As soon as I handcuffed him and told him he was under arrest the prick in him started to show. He began screaming hysterically -- and remember these are his words, not mine -- "You're only arresting me because you're too much of a pussy to nail those niggers dealing drugs downtown!" There was more -- a LOT more -- but you get the picture. He actually said I arrested him because he's WHITE. I have to admit I've never heard that one before :) The best part of the story happened in the court room yesterday. When I arrived his defense attorney was reading my report, which of course included ALL of Mr. White Prick's statements. I could tell every time he read one of his client's quotes because he looked down at his feet and shook his head. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I hope he billed the guy THOUSANDS of dollars before losing the case :) :) :) :) Doom on you, dirtbag!