#police profiling

Jay posted the video Friday night and said the incident went down approximately one week before Ahmaud Arbery's murder. He says he was getting exercise, wearing noise-canceling headphones, when he saw the cops approach. He thought whoever they were after was in big trouble ... and then it dawned on him -- they were after him.

The cops told Jay he fit the description of a suspect -- black male wearing gray sweatpants and a gray shirt.

You see the security footage in Jay's video, and it matches his narration. You see a cop approach Jay from behind, with gun pointed. Another officer arrives with his gun in the air, and a patrol car rolls up and one of the 2 cops exits with his gun drawn.

1. I am a white woman

2. As a teenager, I shoplifted too many times to count

3. As a teenager, I smoked weed too many times to count

4. As a teenager, over half of the time I was in a vehicle, weed was present

5. The high school that I went to was 95% white and only one family in attendance was African American

*Those are true facts about my life, but here are some more...*

1. I’ve been pulled over for speeding about 5 times since I was 18 and I’ve never gotten a ticket

2. I have never been, and my car has never been, searched by the police

3. In high school, none of my friends were ever searched by the police

4. When I was shoplifting from stores as a teenager, I never once felt like I would be caught, no one even noticed me

5. When I was a senior in high school, I was in the backseat of a car full of other teenagers on my way to a party at around 11 p.m. (Passed curfew for several kids in the car). A cop pulled up behind us and ended up pulling us over because the driver panicked and basically drove in a circle. When the cop got to the window, he asked for everyone’s ID. We handed them over and told him we were on our way to a friend’s house for the night. We had bottles of alcohol in bags on the floor but he never noticed. The driver said he had a hunting rifle in the trunk for hunting season with his dad, and again, that statement was ignored. I had already turned 18 and the cop told me that I could be charged with the delinquency of a minor for being present with the other kids and I got an attitude with him and basically said “Not likely” and gave him a teenage eye roll. The cop gave us our IDs back and told us to get where we were going safely. That was that. Five, white, teenagers were stopped after curfew, on the way to a party. Bottles of alcohol were in the car, a gun was in the car, and I can guarantee you that one or more had drugs on them. We weren’t searched, we weren’t hauled into the police station, our parents weren’t even called.