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In ’n’ Out

A woman from Ft. Worth, Texas, stopped at her bank, did her business at the ATM outside, and left. Unknown to her, at the same time the bank was being robbed. As she drove away, a witness wrote down her license plate number and reported it as belonging to the robber’s get-away car. As she pulled up to a friend’s house, she was surrounded by police with their guns drawn. When the officers realized the 5-foot white woman didn’t match the robber’s description — a 5-foot-7-inch, 170-pound black man — they released her. “It was so humiliating,” the unidentified woman said. “I thought maybe I’d run a stop sign or something when they started shouting for me to put my hands in the air.” (Reuters) ...No, for stop sign violations they start shooting right away.


Publication Date: 16 April 2000

This story is in True's book collection:
Volume 6, Page 119
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