By Derek Benson
The other day I was skateboarding in Hopkins with some friends. Three squad cars pulled up, turned on their cherries, and told us to get off our boards. We weren’t in some apartment’s pool–we were on the sidewalk.
There are a lot of cruisers in this town who pollute the air with their cars, driving up and down the boring road. Do the Police ever do anything to them? Barely ever! It seems they’d rather hassle a skater than a crack dealer, especially since a skateboarder is an easier target than a crack dealer.
The hassling probably has to do with the false image of skateboarders as skate punks. Most skateboarders are not punks. They’re just normal people who skate for fun, not for image.
This article was not meant to offend anyone. It was just meant to show that people who skate are not criminals. They’re people, too.