I was coming out of Edgware Road
Tube Station. There was a young black guy in front of me. He was stopped and searched by two policemen standing next to the barriers.

He kicked off (quite understandably), about why they hadn't stopped and searched me (a young, suited and booted, white man), if it was supposedly a random stop and search?

The police therefore stopped and searched me. It made me feel proper gangsta, innit...

Then they let me go and kept him back. To be fair, I think it was because he had a big bag of skunk in his bag, and I didn't, but maybe I'm wrong and they were massive racists.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 6 May 2011, 0:37, 5 replies)

Not
mutually exclusive, they could've been massively racist, and profiling, and still hit on a guy with a bagful of skunk. Not that there's anything wrong with having a bagful of skunk now...
(Slyph, Fri 6 May 2011, 6:49, closed)

True
It just surprised me when it happened, in that on that one occasion, the prejuduce seemed to be right.

Doesn't mean it IS right, obviously...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 6 May 2011, 8:54, closed)

Now, if they had found a dismembered head in your bag
and still let you go, that might be more strongly suggestive of racism.
Did you have a dismembered head in your bag?
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 6 May 2011, 17:55, closed)

Yes
but it was an Asian dismembered head, so, you know, they sort of turned a blind eye.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 6 May 2011, 18:41, closed)

How
do you dismember a head? Does cutting off the ears count?
(Robin of the Hood isn't into the whole brevity thing, Thu 12 May 2011, 0:03, closed)