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Originally Posted by longsuffering

I stumbled across this story from Toronto Life. It's well written and I encourage everyone to take the time to read it. It was an eye-opener for me.

As 55 year old white man, other than at a check stop, I've never been randomly stopped and asked to produce ID.

The Skin I’m In: I've been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I'm black

I'm white and have been stopped and harassed by the police 4 times so far in my life for what to me seemed completely random questioning. Two of those times the police were quite mean and I was asked to provide ID.

The worst incident is when I was returning a video to a video store after hours. They assumed that I was trying to break in and apprehended me until they could do a background check.

There was another time where I ran out of gas in a rural area and had to walk several kilometers down a rural road to a gas station. The police drove by and made me sit in the cop car so they could verify that I wasn't wanted for anything. At the time I was at least happy because I thought once they realized that I had no record, that they would at least drive me into town, but nope.