Summary

In Chapter Six, Oluo writes about her experiences getting pulled over by traffic cops, focusing on a particular incident in 2015 when she was ticketed for driving one mph over the speed limit. She expands on her personal experience to write about the fact that black people are disproportionately targeted by police and are also more likely to be arrested, injured, or even killed during an interaction with the police. She writes about the history of the relationship between the police force and people of color, noting that this is a systemic issue and that racism in the police force is not simply the fault of "a few bad eggs" (89). She writes about how implicit bias against people of color make them more vulnerable during their interactions with police and how a long history in which people of color are threatened...