re: Teen in Georgia killed, officer related shooting

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I've never been bullied by LEO's either. They've always been very nice on the rare occasion that I've interacted when them on duty.

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I've lived in both worlds. My parents are what most would consider well off but I have family and friends who would be perfect bully targets both because of class and color. So I have experience in multiple worlds and the non-affluent/non-middle class/non-white one is no fun at all when it comes to how you're treated by the bullies among police forces and people.

Tale of four cars for ya:

The first car I borrowed when mine was in need of repair was my mom's Lincoln. That sucker hugged the roads better than any traditional sports car and had a V8 in it. And lemme tell you I enjoyed driving it if you catch my drift.

The second car was a friend of mine's beat up mustang. It was what most would consider very poor person looking. I got pulled over the first day I drove it (same drive as before) and the cop was rude and abusive from the word go. A speeding ticket became 'reckless driving' and he tried to claim I was on intoxicated (it was around 9.00 in the morning and I was on the way to work!). At one point he tried to claim I had drugs on me. He tried to pretend that the little bit of tobacco that had collected in a pack of cigs was marijauana (it wasn't but even if it had been we're talking tiny specks of tobacco that, if you were cooking, weren't enough to even constitute a pinch of seasoning) I don't even remember all the charges he filed against me/or tried to file against me because they didn't stick 24hrs before the DA dropped them. Because I have means I had an attorney and that shite went away without so much as a peep or protest from the cop who'd tried his damndest to railroad me when he thought I couldn't fight back.

However, what I remember most about the encounter is how subhuman I was treated. He was abusive and rude and had it not been daylight I don't know how bad it would've gotten. I do know another cop who arrived on the scene intervened on my behalf.

The third car was the one that had been broken down. I'd gotten it fixed and wanted to trade it for a new one and was pulled over when a cop noticed I'd forgotten to get my new reg sticker. This was an average car/middle class car kept in good shape but it was getting older 2001 or something. The cop was sweet as candy and let me go with a warning.

The fourth car is my new one: It's brand new and we got busted speeding in a school zone. Caught dead to rights. Not only was the cop nice as could be he decided not to bother citing us. This cop also didn't bother with making sure we had insurance even though the state just made that a heftier crime (I was about to pull it up on my phone because TN accepts electronic proof of insurance but obviously he made the deduction that since we were in a brand new car we had insurance and proper registration). He even went so far as to tell us to make sure we were careful going into a certain area because we were headed that way and Highway Patrol was out in force.

That just gives you an idea. But again the easy way to see how people respond and the assumptions they make is to dress like you're poor and go to a department store to shop.