I used to tend bar and was very involved in Atlanta nightlife. Would y'all like to hear some stories about things I've seen the cops let drunk white people (ESPECIALLY drunk white women) get away with?
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Let's start with Buckhead. It's a very wealthy, white neighborhood. In the early 2000s there were bars & clubs on every foot of public space. It was common to see drunk or high trust fund kids passed out on the street or in bushes. Nobody ever got arrested for some reason.
Let's head on over to Roswell Road, where I once saw a drunk guy get tossed out by a cop, get in said cops face and start poking the cop in his chest. On his badge. And the cop did nothing. Guess the ethnicity of both.
Then there was the time in Midtown when I saw a young Karen being physically carried out of a club by two officers, slapping them as they put her on the street, cursing at the top of her lungs as she stumbled to her car and they let her DRIVE. OFF.
How Beckys be gettin' hooked up on the cover charge in certain spots is a whole nother convo.
All I'm saying is that situation last night was really not uncommon in a city like Atlanta. It could have, and should have been handled a whole other way. I've seen worse handled better.
So what was the difference here?
So what was the difference here?
