“The Protocol” 0
Eric Frazier, writing at the Charlotte News and Observer, explains:
Don’t get out of the car unless told to. Keep your hands on the steering wheel. Don’t take them off until the officer asks to see your driver’s license and registration. When the request comes, repeat it so the officer knows that you understand.
(Snip some details–follow the link for them.)
This is good protocol for anyone to follow. But I know that, as an African-American man who weighs just over 200 pounds, it’s doubly important for me.
Read the rest, in which he explains how recent events convinced him that he had to have “the talk” about “the protocol” with his daughter, the talk that Not Black or Brown parents don’t need to have.
