or you drive in such a way that attracts attention, or you fit the visual profile of a local neer do well or...the list is endless....but its always the polices fault isnt it??
Hmmmm... in sub's defence, sometimes it is just that policeman's fault and none of the above has to apply to pulled over. Believe me, I had years of being stopped for no reason other than how I looked too. Sometimes you have to have lived it to fully appreciate it.
I'll give you an example of the sort of thing that used to happen to me growing up....
One time, at the age of about 12 or 13, me and my mates (all of us of ethnic minority) were sitting on our bikes outside of a shop while one of us was buying something. There was another group of all white kids about 10 meters away, and obviously not with us.
I watched as the police drove by slowly, past the white kids, then as they drove past us they slowed right down, waited for a reaction which they never got, then they showed us the 'w*nker' sign, and drove off laughing. This... to a bunch of kids on their BMXs just sitting there. Not good.
This is just one incident of MANY where I/we were singled out by the police, right through to adulthood.
Difference for me is.... I don't dislike the police because of it. It happens, some people assume things based on their beliefs/expectations/attitudes, but as long as I'm doing nothing wrong then they can't/couldn't touch me.
Maybe if a day came that I was framed for something based on my colour then I'd think differently. But as it stands, and if it happened again; as frustrating as it can be, it's their issue not mine.
But I must say, for me and people I know it largely seems to be a thing of the past.