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Actually over the years, I've found that shutting my mouth would be helpful not only when talking to law enforcement. Not always so good at carrying that out th

by bcg1 12y ago

Actually over the years, I've found that shutting my mouth would be helpful not only when talking to law enforcement. Not always so good at carrying that out though. Anyways, it reminds of the time I was arrested for smoking the forbidden devil vegetable. We were brought into the city court room to be indicted while we were waiting two suburban white teenagers were in from the bench getting chewed out by the judge, saying that he's sick of seeing these kids from the suburbs coming into the city to buy drugs and encouraging crime in his neighborhood. After he finished his rant, he asked them what they plead and they said not guilty of course. Then one of them felt the urge to speak up and said, "I just want to point out one thing before we go... the police officer wrote down that it was crack cocaine, but it was regular cocaine, not crack." After the judge picked his jaw up off the floor he broke character and told them to shut up until they had a lawyer.

dantillberg 12y ago
I can't help but wonder if those kids would have gotten the same apparently-lenient/gracious treatment from the judge if they'd instead been POC teenagers from the inner city.
- bcg1 12y ago
  Actually he seemed genuinely ticked off at those kids, and I wouldn't say he was lenient (I wasn't really trying to make a statement about that with my story, so maybe I gave a false impression by mistake). I'm white and my friend that I was arrested with was black, and we received the same treatment from the judge (not from the cops though, but that is a different story) - and from what I saw those two kids were the only ones who got chewed out, the rest of us were just arraigned and sent on our way for further processing.
chiph 12y ago
Not always so good at carrying that out though. Ron White has a good line about this in his standup routine: "I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability"

by bcg1 12y ago

dantillberg 12y ago

I can't help but wonder if those kids would have gotten the same apparently-lenient/gracious treatment from the judge if they'd instead been POC teenagers from the inner city.

bcg1 12y ago
Actually he seemed genuinely ticked off at those kids, and I wouldn't say he was lenient (I wasn't really trying to make a statement about that with my story, so maybe I gave a false impression by mistake). I'm white and my friend that I was arrested with was black, and we received the same treatment from the judge (not from the cops though, but that is a different story) - and from what I saw those two kids were the only ones who got chewed out, the rest of us were just arraigned and sent on our way for further processing.

chiph 12y ago

Not always so good at carrying that out though. Ron White has a good line about this in his standup routine: "I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability"