So driving while black is news worthy?

near the end of this "ordeal", i bet dwayne jarrett thought he was being PUNK'D!

What a weird story. This had major potential to turn real ugly for DJ and T. Herring. Was this woman a young student, old alum, or just some breezy? This could've been bad. If you're going to practice, aren't you expecting to work out anyway? You need to warm up those legs by walking, not driving to practice! I'm just gonna forget I ever read this.

Okay, since I have been a person saying that racism has been brought in unfairly, I'll be the one to state the obvious. Police played themselves. They saw some big black dudes get into a car under what they figured where strange circumstances and get out at SC and wham! The cheezy, "looked like a car we suspected in something that a person heard of smurfity..." was plain ridiuclous. Welcome to the real world guys. It happened to me several times at SC, including when I was hopping the fence, as many students do when late for class, to get to an engineering class. Again, I was stopped and held for looking suspicious for 20 minutes as USC security finally figured out "he IS a student" as if such a thing was impossible to believe, and again it happened to me crossing into campus by a police officer... This is why I hate to see people say claim racism on silly grounds when it happens all the time. I just hope the two kids can store it away. College should be a place of good memeories not this b.s.

Come on now, admit it. It's a lot more fun with all this drama, isn't it?

I mean, just going 37-2 is boring.

Glad our guys are trying to make it interesting for us since they aren't doing anything for our blood pressure. Not to mention making us wonder all of the time...'how fricking stupid are our players?'

Fight On!

It's as if it was scripted by Geraldo.

Are the police going to apologize to the players and USC for this sort of behavior? Is USC security who took part in this? This is the second time that the LAPD has run around the USC campus acting like they were on an episode of "SWAT" with the arrest of a minority athlete that we know of, rather than asking questions and finding out the truth before they made idiots out of themselves. This looks bad for LA and it looks bad for minority students, including athletes that are considering attending USC. I don't like it one bit. And USC campus police should start acting as intermediaries rather than taking part in these stupid acts. It makes USC, USC Public Safety and LA look bad. It also makes it seem like parents shouldn't send there kids here. I hope someone says something to save face for my University's sake.

Yea, racism happens all the timr. The only diffrence was, the car WAS under investigation seeing that the women was arressted and taken into custody. If it was just another,"oh your black and look suspicous in a car" kind of thing, nobody would of gone to jail. So there goes your racial excuse. As for your story. Anybody trying to jump a fence into a University from outside in will be questioned. It's a matter of safety. AND NO, not cause your black or half black which really isn't black....anyways. I'm sure if something were to happen with someone jumping the fence and hurting SC students, you would be crying "WHy didn't the secruity do there job?"

This sort of stuff cannot do any good for recruiting out-of-town and out-of-state players.

Okay the jumping the fence thing turned out about whether I was a student and who hasn't. What about the rest of the incidents? And those aren't all. I and a group of friends were pulled over on the same ish at gun point in the middle of the day on Jefferson next to campus. I was stopped w someone else getting our car at a campus PS, when an assumption was made that we were stealing it (but a student Pub Safety dude who knew us intervened and vouched before we had to get out our id's, etc.) You know J, if excuses for obvious racism were gold you'd be rich. The girl, w car where released immediately. No plates problem, and obviously the wrong car (since the other one existed in the land of make-believe). This was just a few years back. And the half Black thing, What. The. F**k. Are. You. Talking. About? Seriously.

I'm sorry I even mentioned some of this stuff b/c of Roger's point. SC shouldn't be made to suffer b/c of some creeps at LAPD or even USC Security. Most are cool. And I should mentioned that a relative from Hempstead NY (and long time Nassau) also worked USC Public Safety and saw first hand the horrible problems w LAPD and yes, sometimes USCPS. He and some other officers had problems w the policies at USC regarding the surrounding community and profiling. It has been addressed and it is not really the same issue now.

Roger, Darren, anonymous; to all my bruthas from different muthas!!! My friends! Fellow men of Troy! (no I haven't been drinking, yet)... allow me, a one-half white-boy-cracker-honky (thanx Dad), my other half being Latin thanx to gorgeous-loving-Mom...

Read the post by "J", it's a very sincere answer, and the truth. Of course you've been harassed, pulled over, questioned, etc., but keep in mind, in some countries they put you in jail with no trial. But here in the good ol' U.S., look at O.J. Simpson, he's golfing now.

Here they may cuff u, & question u, but then they have to let u go because they don't want u to sue for false arrest, which u cannot due most everywhere else but here, the land of a million lawyers.

(start music) in the end, my friends, my teammates, we are still members of one team; made up of cardinal & gold. A football dynasty is the result.

Diversity is what makes us strong. Love ya man. You can pass that Cuervo shot over here now...

"Nobody would of"? Yeah. J was totally off IMO. And I'm not going to deal w incarceration rates, problems w the justice system and all that sort of thing. I'll go with what you said D: We're all Men of Troy. Racism and any other isms, sh... As we pulled away from our stop I'm sure we said to the police FU and as Trojans we just thought FO!

25 years later - in my life-time as a Trojan - we have a beautiful campus partially due to the job USC Security does.

Ever read the crime report in the Daily Trojan? Comments like suspect detained and questioned should mean something - its their job to protect the student who pay 16-20 thousand a semester to attend USC, and get an education.

Besides if you look like eminem or tupac while attending USC you may draw a quick look by USC Security (that rhymed) - I'm a rapper sittin' on the crapper. Out.

The players should never have been handcuffed. You want to talk to the people who were in a suspicious car, fine. But handcuffing people whom you had no intention of arresting is stupid. Racism probably had everything to do with it, and it is the type of thing that USC needs to balk about to the LAPD. It hurts the school immeasurably when minority students are harassed by police on our campus simply for being minority students. What minority recruit would not consider that type of lack of support against racist cops?

Thanks REV for your analysis of the LAPD's motives in this case ...clearly 100% racism here...probably the same cops that framed OJ.

Them being handcuff was due to being racist? I don't think so. It's procedure. Like today, iwas watching and episode of Cops. They got a call for a felony. The operator gave the description of the car(it was a green jeep) Anways, they saw a green jeep, pulled it over, had everyone step out with there hands out one by one, DETAIN(handcuff) them then asked question. Minutes later they come to find out that people inside did not match the description(before you yell out racism they were not black) therefore they were explained why they were pulled over then let go. NO unlike some citizens who think they can do whatever they want to the cops, they did not make a scene or test the cops authority. They simpily accepted the apology and went about there business. My point is 1) What they did in this case and the case if the cops episode was procedure. They detained and questioned no matter what the race is. They tried to get everything straightend out. 2) Yes i know some cops are d*cks and abuse there power, but 90% of the time the victims bring it on themselves. Trying to be tough and macho men. Seeing what theyt see on t.v and hear in music, thinking the officers job more difficult then it should be. Then when the tough guy gets the crap kicked out of him, he's quick to turn into a baby and tell on the cops.