I am Hispanic and of course my son, when he gets a tan looks like an illegal. He was working in a facory that makes those big cement pipes they use underground for water drainage. He was on the night shift and was coming home at 3 in the morning. A cop stopped him for no reason he could give my son. J.R. got out of his car and gave permission for the cop to do a seach and when the officer saw his big tote bag..his eyes lit up! He asked..what's in there? J.R. said just my lunch and a jacket Sir. When the cop saw all the plastic bowls with watermelon seeds and leftover soup..he cracked up and sent my son on his way.
J.R. has been told to be polite, co-operate and be truthful to the police, it stood him in good stead because with his head band on (to keep cement out of his hair) and his grungy outfit..he looked like a thug.
But I was still livid that he was stopped by this hick town cop for racial profiling!!!
I will never drive
through AZ because I don't have a green card since I was born in Denver..but I look like a Mexican abuela. (Old lady/grandma). This profiling of American citizens is appalling! I do understand that the illegals are out of hand all over..but some hispanics were born here! Some have more generations of Americans then some blueboods!
We need to come down hard on the employers and enforce the laws that are already in effect.
Glow, I am sorry you had trouble, it's scary as heck. But you didn't do anything to be stooped for..so it's the cop's bad. But you do need to carry your bona fides at all times! LOL The e-cigs a bit new..so cards for those too.
He didn't start looking "gruff" until a few years back. He's in a band so that explains most of it 
