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Damon Jones @nomadj1s
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A major function of police in the US is to let black people know where they can and cannot go: universities, neighborhoods, etc.

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Within the first two months of getting a license, I was pulled over twice while driving in white neighborhoods

My best friend and I celebrated our first time w/ the freedom of one of us having a license and car
We didn’t know where we’d go, we were just excited to have options: maybe the skating rink?*

*in NJ skating rink = teen nightclub
We got pulled over in an affluent white suburb and were told there had been some robberies recently

They searched my car, my bookbag
They found a large screwdriver in my backseat. I explained because I had a old ‘85 (‘89?) Buick Century, there was no lock on the trunk. I just used it as a lever to open the trunk

They told me I shouldn’t be driving with a sharp object

They searched the trunk
They interrogated us separately, and since we hadn’t decided where we were going yet, we were nervous about having a coherent story ... we owed them an explanation
They finally let us go. Instead of going out, we just went home. We learned we weren’t supppsed to be out

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