[oxide]

Not only have I experienced this as a drug...nerd with black friends, but I've even seen a police officer defer blame for a one-hitter found underneath a seat of a car we occupied pinned on the only black occupant, the irony was that it was neither of ours, but the drivers.

This happened about 10 years ago in Arizona while I was in high school. As I sat in the back of a police car with my black friend, the officer asked whos pipe it was. Our silence got him automatically assigned blame.

I'll never forget the pudgy officer who took in our silence, looked directly at Josiah and said "well, you will probably be blamed for it." He then closed the door and shortly afterwards I was uncuffed and Josiah was taken away on bullshit charges none of us had the balls to take the rap for.

The deck is stacked. In my new town with new black friends they cannot believe that police don't even look at the car when I'm driving.

Regardless of the occupants or color of the occupants, a car with a handicap plate with a young white man driving is apparently not in the profiling training.

[moretai]

I hope Josiah stopped being your friend.

[tehwebguy]

Seriously - OP and their friends are at least half of the damn deck stacked against Josiah!

[oxide]

I'm sorry, but where I come from you don't speak to the police. You don't snitch. End of discussion I'm afraid.

Josiah could have said whos it was as well, but we were both silent. The problem is not that friends aren't tattling over a fucking weed pipe, but that officers deferred blame to the black kid and not the white adult or the two white kids.

No, we didn't stop being friends over that, in fact we became better friends.

Jeez. You guys really think any of us would have told the cops whos pipe it was?

I can't help but read your comments as sarcasm because of their ignorance to basic street code.

You don't point fingers or speak names, even if you take a bullshit charge.

If they deferred blame to me, I'd have quietly gone as well.

[hoppa_liza]

"Street Code" is euphemism for indecency and selfishness. That guy was silent because everyone around him is ready to frame him, not because of "Street Code". I do not believe it for half a second that you or any of the other assumed innocent would stay silent if you were accused.