I'm not premed, but predental and I hope its appropriate that I rant over here.
I'm mixed, but I look black and my husband and I were looking at homes to purchase (he's black). We go to this very nice neighborhood with are realtor, we got there a bit early so we step out the car and start looking outside of the house (it's empty, for sale). Now the part of town I'm in it's known to be not much diversity and I knew immediately that we would be the only black people living in the home subdivision, but that didn't bother me much (I'm used to it).
I kid you not 5 mins past by and 4 cops car shows up and tells us to put are hands in the air....
me and my husband never been in any kind of trouble so we immediately freak out and do what they say. They handcuff us and we sit in the cop car. We tried to explain to them that we were interested in looking at the house, but they refused to listen UNTIL my realtor comes in and in complete shock... she talks to the officers and showed documents of the home ad everything.
after 2 F******* HOURS of sitting in the cop car .... HANDCUFFED.... they let us go..... and said neighbors called because we looked suspicious and looked like we were robbing the house..................................
And you want the cherry on top? My husband is a anesthesia resident and he was wearing scrubs and I work in cooperate and I was wearing a pants suit. If we looked suspicious then I don't want to know what suspicious is.
And the worst part? The cops didn't apologize and just left. I am in complete shock and so sad and upset. I don't want to blame the race card (but come on) and blame all cops are ****ty, cause they are not. I just wanted to share what happen to me today.
What lesson did I learn? As soon as my husband is done with residency we are moving the f*** away from the south (at least this city).