Naked Gun

A month ago Lebraun missed practice after he was pulled over by the police. Other than the fact that he was speeding, I'm still not totally clear on what happened for him to miss a two hour practice. In my own experience(s) of being stopped, the whole episode has not lasted for more than twenty minutes. Maybe it's because as a black man, who has followed quite a few cases on police brutality, I know not to reach for my wallet (or anything else for that matter) during a traffice stop. I also know that I should raise my voice an octave so I don't seem like the ordinary black dude. To date, I haven't tasted the pavement yet or gotten a plunger lodged in my asshole so I must be doing something right.

As I've said in earlier posts, Bubblees and drama are like milk and cookies. You can't find one without the other. Lebraun's most recent story typifies this. After the whole episode of being pulled over for two hours, he found himself in another jam. Last night he called to let me know about something that happened before he got to campus yesterday. He wanted to let me know beforehand just in case the "dees" came asking questions about him.

Lebraun: Ay coach, man, I need to let you know somethin..
Me: Is this about your sister again? What happened with her and homeboy, by the way?
Lebraun: Oh yeh. She ain't seein him no mo. She put a restraining order on him. I listened to you. I ain't go after him that day cuz I figure she just gonna go back to him anyway.
Me: Good thinking. What's going on?
Lebraun: Well, I was up by these projects chillin before practice and these girls kept laughin about somethin.
Me: Okay
Lebraun: And so I was like, what are y'all laughin at. Lemme know what's so funny and they wouldn't say nothin, but one of them mentioned a black bag.
Me: Okay.
Lebraun: Yeh so they kept laughin and snickerin then all of a sudden, the dees should up.
Me: I'm following.
Lebraun: So when the dees showed up they went and picked up this black bag and started askin me questions.
Me: Why'd they question you because of a random black bag?
Lebraun: I was thinkin the same thing, but they went through my record and all. They wanted to know if the black bag was mine and I told em no. I told em I was playin ball at QCC so when they ain't find nothin they just lemme go.
Me: What was in the black bag?
Lebraun: A big ass shotgun!!