Oh, okay. So maybe they should have pulled over every black car of similar size and shape they came across. Or maybe even the dark blue ones, because, you know, the witness might be color blind.

what do you think the percent of people who get Colors. COLORS correctly are?

We did a study in college in conjunction with the St. Joseph police department where a person came into our class of 100 people and walked out and we were specifically looking at him. We then were asked to describe the man. 90% of the people got the color wrong, some people thought he was black, some thought he was mexican, others thought it may have been a woman.

truth is
YOU
JUST
DON'T
KNOW

Wow. Amazing story.

But I have to point out that you could've retired early if you had only been a little more combative. Yeah, sure, it would hurt for a while to be nightsticked and tased by 20 cops, but you'd have 30 years to heal.

These waters are fished out.

tl;dr

so a get outta jail free card might be in your future.

People make mistakes.

Wow, that beats the time I evaded arrest from about 20 OPPD cops and a helicopter.

I grew up driving a Triumph Spitfire and I got pulled over a lot. One time, the cop walks up and starts asking me questions. After a few questions, he looked at me and said, "You talk funny." I responded, "Well, sorry, but I was born in England." He then went on a rant about Lamar Avenue not being "the Autobahn." I stifled a few giggles and took my ticket.

This

So let me get this straight........

You overheard something about a murder in the area?

You checked the news to confirm, they informed you the type of vehicle, color, model etc?

(At this point I would assume you knew Cops were in pursuit in the area to try and find the suspect).

So you had a choice on which vehicle to take across town to go to school to do your thing. You could have chosen the pickup.....instead you chose the vehicle that is pretty close in matching the one the cops are after?

And before you make the argument that the vehicle models aren't close to being the same....let me remind you that,

A: Most people don't own corvettes, I'm probably wrong but I'd guestimate that maybe 1 in 50,000 car owners own a corvette. That ratio then probably becomes smaller in a sense that not all corvettes that are owned are black. Just saying....cops were doing their jobs. They saw a vehicle that matched the suspect's veh and they took action.

So here's the question I ask to you......
Why would you purposely want to get ****ed with by the police? If you didn't think they would just pass by and see your vehicle and not think anything of it after this whole thing's been on the news.......then I must say "Sir you're a dumbass!!!"

I mean if there was a murder at a corner gas station one evening and I saw it on the news at 9pm, suspect was identified as a tall while male with a red hoodie on and was still at large.......I'm not going to go put on my red hoodie and head out to the nearest gas station and fill my car up with gas, go buy a case of beer or what have you.

So either you're extremely stupid, and your decision making REALLY needs to be questioned.

OR

You were looking for trouble to begin with and wanted cops to **** with you or you wanted to **** with them.

Either way it's stupid.

Dude, you should have sped away... and got into one of those really cool high-speed chases.

yes but my hoodie was old navy red not ecko

I'm usually pretty pro-cop, but c'mon - expecting them to know a little more about what it is they're looking for is hardly asking too much.

Should they really just be driving around and pulling guns on every black corvette tooling around town? It's not like a black 'vette is the most uncommon thing in the world.

A brief detention and license check I have no problem with. But stopping traffic and using several cruisers and cops w/ guns drawn just because you saw a black vette is wholly unreasonable. That situation was one skittish cop away from getting somebody needlessly shot all because a local Sheriff decided to go all commando without any significant fact checking.

That was a needlessly explosive situation. In that kind of environment it would not have taken much to get someone hurt badly. All because a guy was driving a fairly common car?

Nope, not gonna defend that one.

He said he took the car out that morning and found out about the murder mid-day. He was on his way home when the events in question transpired.

But when have you ever been one for paying attention?