When I was 17, some friends and I went driving down a dirt road right behind one guys house. It was just behind the fence line of an old neighborhood but close to where they were starting a new development. As we were heading home after about 20 minutes, we were swarmed by four or five cop cars. We stopped, thinking they would tell us to head on home.
Cops jump out of their vehicles, guns pointed at us, screaming for us to get on the ground. They chain us together and accuse us of all types of strange things. They said that we were trespassing on an environmental preserve for an endangered species, which was a felony, and the department would soon own our trucks. Talked all types of shit to us for hours while they waited for wreckers to impound the trucks. It was 20 yards from a construction zone so that made no sense.
They took us DT and booked us on all types of charges that had nothing to do with driving down a dirt road. They all got dropped but I always wondered what that would have played out like if we weren’t clean cut white kids from the burbs with college educated parents.
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