We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do that–hell, they could shoot up a church and then ask for Burger King–but not us. We got killed at traffic stops for speeding, for having broken taillights, for knowing our rights. Una LaMarche
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