[john_moscow]

Thanks for sharing your story. I truly wonder through, how much was it about your skin color vs.:

1. The professional attire and the fact that you pulled over and apologized.

2. The cop being busy with something else that's more important than busting a random pothead.

[throwanem]

I didn't apologize! Dude was sixty feet away still standing in the street when I got out of the car, I didn't say anything and neither did he. He looked me once over, waved me off, and forgot me.

And that's just my point. Based entirely on how I looked, he judged the incident to have been a harmless accident and not worth pursuing, despite that I had a felony charge worth of dope in my front pocket at the time. Pretty important, if you get to make that bust! But he never had any idea of the chance that passed him by, because, to him, I looked like somebody who wouldn't.

What I'm saying is, think for a minute about how that could've played out differently if, in that cop's eyes, I'd have looked a different way.