Encouraged by a few people, including Kossack Tool, I'm going to write a two part diary about my experience with the police and White Privilege. I think this is important to do, because it draws such a stark contrast between what persons of color and "white" people experience not just in everyday society, but especially when it comes to dealing with the police.
Part one has to do with a traffic stop, which I'll write about today. Part two has to do with accidentally derailing the culmination of a months-long State Police action--for which we probably should have been arrested but were not.
Part one, though, and some background, over the divider-doodle...