Has a white person ever been arrested and put in jail for tresspassing in their own yard?

Question

True story. In certain nieghborhoods, the police stop people and ask them for ID. If they can not produce it. They get taken to jail for tresspassing. This really happens, but for some reason it only seems to happen in where Black people live. Do the police do this to white people?

you may be in your own hood, but if you don't have your wallet on you, then you can't prove you live there.

Answer 1

It happens in my locality. Many of the cops here are total as*es regardless. Although I won't deny that racism is present here among law enforcement... It most certainly is. But it goes both ways (from everything I've seen and heard), and the officers don't all exhibit it in the same manner.

Just a bit of my experiences and observations:

I can't even remember how many times I've been pestered by black cops- for some of the most insanely stupid reasons you could think of. On one occasion, I was pulled over for not stopping at a yield sign. But there was no oncoming traffic. When I pointed this out, the cop became blistering mad and threatened to run me in if I didn't shut up. Then there was a time when I was pulled over supposedly due to suspicion of DUI (because I was driving below the speed limit). On another occasion, I was stopped for having a "visual impediment" on my front windshield. It was my husband's parking permit for work, and it was directly behind my rearview mirror (where no one could see it from the inside of the car unless they made a point to look). When I tried explaining this to the officer, he ordered me out of the car while asking me why I was so nervous and if I was hiding something. He searched my car, found nothing, and then demanded that I remove the "visual impediment".

Then, on another occasion, I was pulled over for supposedly fitting the description of someone who had been riding through a nearby neighborhood, earlier that morning, while shouting obscenities. I had to call my husband to leave work so he could come to where we were and tell that idiot cop that I was with him at the time when the incident occurred. Oh, and here's a really "good" one-- A few years ago, I was walking down the sidewalk at a shopping center after making a few purchases. While walking, I opened a couple of small packages and threw the containers in the trash can. Later that evening, long after I had returned home, an officer showed up while I was tending to my garden. He claimed that the department received a call from someone (who knew me) claiming that I had made a "drug drop" (that what I threw in the trash can at the shopping center was actually drugs). He proceeded to rant about black people being falsely accused of drug dealing and that he knows "it's really the white men and they get their women to do it." I'm sure you can imagine the dumb look on his face when my black husband walked outside. Oddly enough, I've experienced the same with white cops after my husband and I had been out together-- One of us would throw something in the trash, and a white cop would show up claiming that someone reported a "drug drop".

We're not strangers to harassment by white officers- my husband for being black, and me for being with him. Quite a while back, before we were married, me and my husband were walking down the street when a cop stopped and asked my husband for his ID. I was wearing my husband's coat at the time, and his wallet (containing his ID) was in one of the pockets. When I proceeded to take out his wallet, the cop put his hand over his gun and yelled at me to put my hands on my head. My husband explained that his ID was in the coat I was wearing, but the officer arrested him regardless (for not having the ID on his person). After shoving my husband in the car, the cop called in a request for a female officer (to search me)- during which he said, "I got another cave *****."

Over the years, our vehicles have been searched repeatedly- Sometimes by black cops when I've been alone, sometimes by white cops when my husband has been alone, and sometimes by both (but mostly by white cops) when we've been together. One evening, while we were at a local park, an officer drove up. He was supposedly responding to a call from someone who expressed concern that we were staking out the neighborhood with intentions of B&E. While searching our car, he found a pill box (that my mom had given me) and accused me of doing drugs. (I suppose that I was the one he accused since I was the one who tried to explain why it was in the car- that my mom had given it to me and that I just hadn't yet removed it from the car.) My husband told him, "Punk, if you're so sure then test the mutha fukka." So he was arrested for verbally assaulting a police officer.

Of course, I can't say with 100% certainty that each and every incident was racially motivated. Like I said, there are cops here who are a*ses regardless. I don't like jumping to conclusions. But, often times, it's quite obvious due to certain things that are said and so forth. And, like I said, not all the cops here react the same. By the way some of the cops here act, you'd never know they're racist. Some of them pick on white people. But it isn't because they're not racist. It's because some are afraid of blacks (because they assume that blacks are violent).

According to my experience and observation... AGAIN, according to MY experience and observation... The racism here goes equally both ways (or ALMOST equally both ways). And I'd bet that it's because the population includes so many of both blacks and whites. However, in one nearby locality, the population is majority black. And racism there (again, from MY experience and observation) is directed mostly towards whites. On the other hand, in another nearby locality, the population is majority white. And racism there (again, from MY experience and observation) is directed mostly towards blacks.

Well I'm blabbing too much, so I'll shut up.

Answer 2

Never heard of that. That's cryin shame. I've heard of DWB-driving while black. But getting arrested for being on your own property, that's insane. How is someone gone trespass on their own lawn? But that should be more of a complaint about the police, not what happens and doesn't happen to white folks.

Answer 3

I've seen black neighbors get stopped by white cops just for walking down the street with their own garden tools. White people carrying the same tools are left alone.

Pretty sad when a light-skinned neighbor has to come out to vouch for a dark-skinned one.

Answer 4

Further proof that whitey is holding the white man down.

Answer 5

0.02 why do you do this about race all the time? im just askin. wanna get in ya head and see whats up in there

Answer 6

I highly doubt it. This nonsense also happens to blacks who live in white neighborhoods.

Answer 7

nope never heard of it, but ive never heard of that happening to black or white people.... maybe they just do that where your from

Answer 8

I doubt they do it.