I've been in a car with a black driver (my husband), where we were pulled over and the cops went to the back of our car and pulled out the bulb over the license plate, then came to the window, one of them tossing it in his hand and grinning, and said, "Sir, I'm going to have to write you a ticket. You don't have a light bulb over your license plate." Being white and ignorant, I cried, "But you just pulled it out---you've got it in your hand!" My husband shushed me, as the cops started telling me what they could do to me if they wanted to, his hand on his gun.

What surprises me is not that cops get shot, but that they don't get mowed down, large scale, by the people they've treated like crap just for a little fun.

Holly Helmstetter
Antwerp NY