I have no clue about either of your assertions.
Sending support. What horrible events.
I spoke with my son last night. Recently he identified a pedestrian that fit the description of a suspect. When he approached, this gentleman did not want to talk to him, so he ran. Interestingly, running away isn’t illegal in his jurisdiction. My son is a runner. With a 30lbs weighted vest he runs a mile in around 6 minutes. The chase went on for about 150 yards before my son tackled him in a parking lot. The man apologized to my son after he was in handcuffs.
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Thank you for your son’s service
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I appreciate the thanks, but like many in public service he doesn’t believe he deserves thanks.
BTW, some of the conversations he has with arrested suspects while driving to the jail can be pretty entertaining. There’s the occasional death threat, but for the most part it’s pretty light hearted.
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I watched the documentary mentioned by @Jugulator20, above. It is at once infuriating and not at all surprising. LEOs are far from infallible. Might be worth a look for those who just can’t fathom how things might go wrong even for those who turn to LEO for help. Here is a trailer . . .
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Who said they were?
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Did I say anyone said anything? Am I prohibited from expressing an opinion without it being in direct response to another post?
Cops are not infallible. Some are crooked. Some are incompetent. Some follow the law and do their best. They all make mistakes. It makes sense to know your rights and act accordingly in an adversarial system where LEOs have the power to ruin (or even take) your life.
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Some are more concerned with the too frequent power of criminals to ruin or even take their life
Why not be concerned about both the criminals and LEO, since both have the power to ruin or even take their life?
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Sometimes things aren’t always as they first appear…
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The N.Y.P.D. Pulled Over a City Councilman. Now Both Are Under Fire.
Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, said the officer who stopped him should have explained why. Some officials said Mr. Salaam had used his position to avoid a ticket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/nyregion/yusef-salaam-traffic-stop-nyc-policing.html
from the NYT article:
In an interview, Mr. Salaam denied having used his title to try to avoid a ticket. He said that he was in the process of having the Georgia registration on his vehicle switched to New York. Mr. Salaam, who moved back to New York in December 2022, still owns a home in Georgia and has family there.
He said he had been unaware that his tinted windows, which are legal in Georgia, were illegal in New York City, adding that if he had received a ticket or a warning, he would have moved to have them changed.
“Now I know why I was stopped,” Mr. Salaam said, “and now I can correct the problem so that I am not stopped in the future.”
When he was stopped, Mr. Salaam said, he was on a phone call with colleagues from the City Council on speakerphone, including Sandy Nurse, who represents Bushwick and other areas of north Brooklyn. She said she heard Mr. Salaam ask why he was being stopped, and they discussed it after. Given that there was no explanation by the officer, she said, she assumed Mr. Salaam had been stopped for “driving while Black.”
Ms. Nurse said that she understood why Mr. Salaam identified himself as a council member, since traffic stops can escalate into violence.
“He’s a dark-skinned Black man who went through a very traumatic thing as a child,” she said. “I think it would only make sense for him to identify himself, as someone who has lived his experience, to an officer — why wouldn’t he make that clear?”
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. His windows are/were too dark.
He registered to vote in NY on July 27th, 2022. He had 30 days from that point to change the registration of his car, by law.
“According to the NYPD Patrol Guide and the city Administrative Code, police officers are not required to say why someone is being stopped on a low-level potential infraction like a tinted-window violation.”
Here is the bodycam footage:
Perhaps some consideration may be given to the fact that Mr. Salaam is one of the Central Park Five. From Wikipedia:
On April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili, a woman jogging in Central Park, was assaulted and raped by Matias Reyes.[a] Authorities accused Salaam, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray and Raymond Santana of assaulting her; the five teenagers—of black and Latino race—became known as the “Central Park Five”. At the time, Salaam was 15. The teenagers confessed to assaulting her, but later claimed the confessions were the result of beatings and threats by police officers. Salaam later claimed that police had deprived the teenagers of “food, drink or sleep” for more than a day. All five were convicted in 1990.[3] His conviction was upheld by the Appellate Division, and was again upheld in 1993 by the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.[4] He was released from prison in 1997.[5] His conviction was vacated in 2002 and in 2014 New York City paid $41 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the Central Park Five.[6]
Consideration in what regard? Does he get a pass for violating NY law? Evading NY taxes? Using his office to dodge liability?
That stop was brief, very cordial, and he was released without any charges.
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It’s not the first time (and won’t be the last) that cops pulled over a government official for driving while black. The video below is a particularly hilarious “oops” moment - “oops I accidentally pulled over the state AG for no good reason”.
You can tell in the video she knows what’s going on and she’s tired of it.
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Is it impossible to believe that some black officials engage in driving violations? Should I always mention I am an attorney when I am pulled over?
It seems like people should be mindful of window tint.
Is there any objective proof that she was pulled over for “driving while black?”
Ms. Ayala never took any legal action against the officers because, in her words, the stop “appears to be consistent with Florida law.”
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Just because it appeared to be consistent with Florida law doesn’t mean that the cops did the right thing.
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