First of all, how do we know the cops saw a black man in the RR and decided to pull him over? If the windows were tinted, the cops might not been able to see who it was. All they would see was someone in a nice car change lanes illegally and pulled him over. Second of all, what if he, say, cut someone off? That would have brought attention to him and made it an easy stop for the cops. Also, my friend was pulled over and ticketed for a lane violation on the Beltway in the middle of the night (literally, it was like 1 in the morning and he was driving home from his job at a bar/restaurant). He's of Hispanic descent, but looking at him he's paler than me (a grade A white boy). The cop was black, does that make it DWW? Was that cop wrong? No, my friend broke the law and paid the price for it. Just because a black man in a nice car gets pulled over doesn't automatically make it DWB. The cops saw a law being broken and pulled him over at their discretion. Blaming the cops for doing their job seems to be the new thing in America. Lastly, I'd like the Texans to give a tryout to the cop who actually chased down Law. He must have some wheels on him.
pgabs, you are *really* struggling at this point in the argument. It's getting pretty ugly. You should rephrase your question to read, "How many of those laws are broken and *involve* a car?" Your defense is looking worse and worse... It's pretty simple, really. Obey the law.
This probably is gonna end up in DnD....but there is nothing inherant in black or browness that makes people more likely to commit crimes. Its the poverty, you get into appalachia, or extreme rural areas where the poverty in the white community is equal to that of the mostly ethnic populations of our large inner cities, guess what you find....Gang and drug culture (though Meth instead of Crack seems to be more in vouge among the Trailer park chapters of the Crips and Bloods) You want to pull people over for just being a certain skin color, because statistically you think they are more likely to commit crime, then you want to get angry with members of that skin color, if they seem to have a "bad" attitude about the police. Well guess what, if you are being harrassed, it tends to give you a negative view of the harasser. Doesn't nessasarily have to be race, I've seen questionable police stops of males with long hair, or cars with green party bumper stickers. I know at one point in Houston a Kathy Whitmire bumper sticker was a guaranteed traffic stop a week. You let police use thier own judgement as to what constitutes "suspicion" and you have people selectively enforcing the law, based on thier own predjudices.
