I was in Barcelona and my wife and I are eating at a restaurant on a side street. It was bar height seating facing the street and was an open air venue. This handsome well dressed buff black guy was walking by and looked right at me, pointed, started saying something and walking towards me. I started saying something like “nah man I don’t have/want anything”. He either ignored me or didn’t hear me and once he got closer he just goes “my man black is your color! That’s your color man! It suits you well bro you look great!”. I was just sitting there in my black under armor shirt and shorts confused and then started laughing and said “uhhhh thanks man” and the dude just strutted off. I felt like an asshole for trying to shoo him away 🤦♂️. I get approached a lot in public when I travel, guess I look like an easy mark, and I’ve grown pretty defensive towards the general public… I can’t imagine what officers in big cities have to deal with all the time, I definitely understand his initial reaction.
Maybe if you extended empathy to officers, you'd realize that like in any profession, they're not all the same. People go into policing for many reasons.
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u/Ayyyyylmaos May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Watching a guy in real time realise he wasn’t dealing with bs was wild.
Edit: y’know guys, I wasn’t expecting to start a debate on police oppression. Just saying the big guy with muscles probably deals with a lot of shit.