Racial profiling? You decide [View All]

The other morning at 2 a.m. I drove to the local gas station to get cigarettes and some doughnuts; I pulled in about the same time as this black gentleman in a minivan. I parked beside his van and went in, by luck we both came out together and he wanted to look at my truck. As we stood there talking a local policeman drove through, he made a slow pass and left. We continued to talk and a few minutes later the policeman came back and pulled up behind us and got out. He asked what we were doing out at 2 in the morning, this peed me off just asking this with no cause, I went into the cig and munchies story and the black gentleman said he was on his way to work, with that the policeman says; “can I see some i.d.?” As I reached for my wallet he says; “No not you, you can leave, JUST you” as he looked over at the other guy.

Not wanting to be an ass, I got in my truck and left; about a half mile down the road this incident started getting to me as I remembered I have temp plates on my truck. I made a u turn and went back to see if the van had plates, the whole time planning on the “I forgot something” excuse. This time I pulled along the other side of the van and got out, mumbling how I should have bought two packs of cigs. I went to the back of the truck as if I were looking for scratches just to see the plates on the van, sure enough it had up to date plates. The policeman also had the guy’s stuff, wallet, change, keys, etc. on the back of his cruiser as if he had searched him. I went in the store and slowly walked around like I was looking for things, a few minutes later the van drives off and the policeman went in the other direction.

Looks like profiling to me???