Comedian Repeatedly Attempts to Get Arrested to Illustrate White Privilege (VIDEO)

Occasionally NSFW LanguageWe’ve covered comedienne and filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler before – specifically, her film about taking ownership of her struggle with bulimia, The Skinny – but her most recent video tackles something a little more timely.

Kahnweiler‘s latest video, “Jessie Gets Arrested,” is a playful but still trenchant look at just how hard a white woman has to work to get arrested in this day and age.

The video shows footage of Kahnweiler trying really hard to get arrested on the streets of L.A. – she swims in a fountain marked “No trespassing,” jumps into a parade to take pictures with police officers and at one point offers to sell her antidepressants to two on-duty cops. (They politely inform her that she’d be committing a crime, at which point, she feigns ignorance – they just release her afterwards.)