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 Following a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke hold while arresting him in July, the hashtag #CrimingWhileWhite has begun trending online. 
 
 The hashtag was started Wednesday by former Daily Show writer Jason Ross, who is white. He revealed the minimal punishment he received from police for crimes he committed while growing up. 
 
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 "Busted for larceny at 11," he tweeted. "At 17, cited for booze + caught w gun @ school. No one called me a thug. Can't recommend being white highly enough." 
 
 Ross, who now writes for the Tonight Show, then encouraged other white people who follow him on Twitter to share their own stories of "under-punished f—-ups," as he termed them. 
 
 Ross' hashtag has gotten a slew of responses, and he has been retweeting a number of the the stories. One Twitter user wrote: "Many white friends pulled over for DUI In college. Cops followed them home to make sure they got home safe, no arrests. #CrimingWhileWhite." 
 
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 Another person wrote: "As a passenger, told an officer my name was none of his f--king business, but that I wanted to know his. Matter dropped. #CrimingWhileWhite." 
 
 A third person tweeted she was caught by a cop for running out of a restaurant without paying the bill. She only had to pay the bill and then was free to go. 
 
 Ross' tweets, along with those by other users, can be seen below. 
 
 Busted 4 larceny at 11. At 17, cited for booze + caught w gun @ school. No one called me a thug. Can't recommend being white highly enough. — Jason Ross (@jasonjross) December 3, 2014 
 
 Yeah, but I can tell you're a good kid. Just something about you. Go have fun, now. — Jason Ross (@jasonjross) December 3, 2014 
 
 BTW, I'm not boasting. That record is (or was) sealed and I hoped never to contend w/ it again. But for fuck's sake. — Jason Ross (@jasonjross) December 3, 2014 
 
 OTHER WHITE PEOPLE: Tweet your stories of under-punished f-ups! It's embarrassing but important! Let's get #CrimingWhileWhite trending! — Jason Ross (@jasonjross) December 3, 2014 
 
 Many white friends pulled over for DUI In college. Cops followed them home to make sure they got home safe, no arrests. #CrimingWhileWhite — Nancy Arents (@narents) December 3, 2014 
 
 As a passenger, told an officer my name was none of his f--king business, but that I wanted to know his. Matter dropped. #CrimingWhileWhite — Eric (@naporeon) December 3, 2014 
 
 I dined and dashed-cop found me at the movies, I paid the bill and he left. I was rude but not arrested and not killed. #CrimingWhileWhite — Robyn Kopp (@filmfixation) December 3, 2014 
 
 I got caught shoplifting at a water park when I was a kid. Instead of calling the police, they called my dad. #CrimingWhileWhite — Chris Travis (@ChrisTravisNYC) December 3, 2014 
 
 I was driving a car with a rejected sticker, no license, registration, any ID and a headlight out. Cops let me drive home #crimingwhilewhite — Keith J Carberry (@KeithJCarberry) December 3, 2014 
 
 #CrimingWhileWhite got caught with weed by the police a half dozen times and they just took my weed and told me to go home. — #PoliceThePolice (@Joe_Schmucc) December 3, 2014 
 
 White BF told cop who stopped him for speeding to "f**k off." Let go with a warning and a "good night." #crimingwhilewhite — Anne B (@abroshar) December 3, 2014 
 
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– New York City wasn't the only site of protests last night after a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in Eric Garner's death. On Twitter, Tonight Show writer Jason Ross started the #CrimingWhileWhite hashtag to draw attention to the preferential treatment police give white people, reports the Hollywood Reporter. "At 17, cited for booze + caught w gun @ school," he tweeted. "No one called me a thug. Can't recommend being white highly enough." He encouraged other white people to share their stories: @akrs_: "Airsofting in a park. Cops called. 10 squad cars, 1 helicopter. 'Don't do it again.' Didn't even write our names down." @narents: "Many white friends pulled over for DUI In college. Cops followed them home to make sure they got home safe, no arrests." @Joe_Schmucc: "oh yeah the time I got picked up for the gun at school thing they let my mom come pick me up and take me home. No juvie." @celebrityhottub: "Drunkenly peed at a construction site. Cops rolled up, told me to watch out for phone thieves in the area." @oceana_roll: "In high school I got in a 3 car wreck that might have been my fault. The cop told me it was the 'illegal alien's' fault." Others pointed out that Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner and Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes were taken into custody alive, while Garner and other black men accused of minor offenses were killed on the spot. A conversation "about injustice in the death of another black man ... was to be expected," writes Soraya Nadia McDonald at the Washington Post. "What made #CrimingWhileWhite different from other hashtags was its framing. It was about people who are not black pointing out what they consider disparities in treatment drawn from their own experiences."