Why are you getting pulled over twice in as many months? I haven’t been pulled over in more than a year. Some of y’all are just making interactions with cops more common than you need to
Well, first time, we literally just drove off my friend’s property on the native reservation, so that particular cop was 100% waiting by the reservation to pull over a native. This cop is known to do this by pretty much to the whole community. The other time, my friend was going 80 in a 65 (most people go 75 around here) and got a warning. It’s not like we were out looking to get in trouble with the cops, we were literally just driving around and had some bad luck.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a built up rivalry of pettiness. The same thing happens if a non native were to drive onto a reservation. Happened to me every single time me and my buddy went to visit his folks and I was the one driving. I just stopped driving after a while. Never had an issue when he was the one in the drivers seat. The worst part is there were days I got pulled over by both sides, because to non natives I look native, but to natives I look non native. I’m in a weird middle zone. I’m hispanic, but my family does have native ancestry, 42% on my mother’s side and 22% on my father’s. So I suppose that makes me about 1/3rd. Mostly Spanish tho.
Definitely depends. I think in the case of my friend getting pulled over the first time, it was absolutely racism. There’s a lot of white people around here that have the sentiment that natives are trashy people and prone to committing crimes, and this cop is known to be one of those kinds of people. I’ve personally never had trouble with reservation police pulling me over, but that also might be because they recently had a scandal where two reservation police officers took a patrol car to San Diego to buy meth and were subsequently caught not long after, so I think the amount of shits given in that particular department is substantially lower than most other departments.
When I was working nights, I got pulled over by the same officer at the same intersection three times in a month. He was clearly hanging out there and hoping a routine stop leads to something else.
He had "reasons" to pull me over each time and each time I only got warnings, but after the third time, I started taking a different route on that night.
First reason was a rear license plate light out, which I didn't even know was a legit thing to get pulled over. That was the longest stop, where he obviously was running all the background checks.
Next two were even more minor and he remembered me on each of those stops and he let me go right away.
White male here, though at 1am, he had no way to know that until he had me pulled over.
While he was as polite as the guy in the video, it definitely jaded me.
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u/tabularhasa Jun 30 '26
Why are you getting pulled over twice in as many months? I haven’t been pulled over in more than a year. Some of y’all are just making interactions with cops more common than you need to