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Interstate 70 – Kansas. Photo by Doug Kerr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

What is the matter with Kansas?

Abbeynormal @abbynormal2020 : It is scary. I did that one night in the parking lot of my hotel in St Louis. 4 cops had a young black man pulled over and you’re right. The cops do not like it.

StaceyC.inKS @StaceyCKs1: I do it, too. Cops HATE that shit. I sat on the hood of my car recording a police officer shaking down a Black kid on a bike in a Starbucks parking lot a few weeks ago. The cop was FURIOUS. I asked the kid if he wanted me to call his mom. He did. She was there in 5 min.

George @MrGeorgeJaxson: Summer 2021, in rental w/ east coast tags. Stopped on I-70 in KS & MO on the same day on BS “following 2 close”. KS demanded 2 know why I hadn’t flown instead of driving, & @MSHPTrooperGHQ made me go sit in cop car while questioning my passenger. No tickets given but scary AF.

Lots of thank-yous and blessings in the replies, pretty much coming down to this:

Grumpy Ouldwan @asheflynn: How can Americans live like this, always having to watch your back even from the “law”. Everyone is hostage to fear. That’s no way to live.

God bless America.

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