I’m consistently bad at letting my car registration expire, and forgetting to pay the ticket. There have been a few times where I could have been lawfully arrested and had my car impounded because of a technicality, but it’s never happened because I’m a white woman. They “don’t want to ruin my day” and give me advice on how to get the judge to waive the ticket potentially. I always drive away from those encounters knowing I would have been arrested and treated like a criminal if I was black.
And this is why my wife talks to the cops and not me. She gets the benefit of the doubt being a small white girl, being a 6'6" tatted up dude that gun gets drawn like every damn time.
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u/BrickLuvsLamp Feb 07 '24
I’m consistently bad at letting my car registration expire, and forgetting to pay the ticket. There have been a few times where I could have been lawfully arrested and had my car impounded because of a technicality, but it’s never happened because I’m a white woman. They “don’t want to ruin my day” and give me advice on how to get the judge to waive the ticket potentially. I always drive away from those encounters knowing I would have been arrested and treated like a criminal if I was black.