A Michigan man is going viral for a social experiment he conducted last year to see how long, as a white man, he could drive around without his license plates without being pulled over to prove racial and class bias in local policing.
At a city commission meeting in Grand Rapids on Feb. 24, a resident who identified himself as Lucas G.R. took the podium and explained to his local leaders that five days a week, he drove across town to work — through five different police jurisdictions — without his license plates.
“I was never stopped or questioned once. But please do keep telling us there’s no racial or class bias in policing,” he said. “I bet if I started riding my bike around with a gun on me, nobody would call.”
The citizen used that example to segue into his criticism of a recent officer-involved shooting in which that exact scenario was played out…