Are you surprised Pierce was handcuffed for driving while black?

Question

I am not. This type of thing happens all the time. It's time for it to stop. Las Vegas police did not say why they stopped him. They only said he was agitated and was therefore handcuffed . It reminded me of stopping directly on the opposite side of the road to check my tires. A cop was giving a ticket on the other side. When he finished he crossed the road and accused me of speeding among other things. Yes I got agitated and yes I wound up in jail .Imagine the idiocy of that statement. I committed no crime and wound up in jail!!!

Answer 1

I am so sick of the race card

Answer 2

No,

DWB is something people get stopped for in my town.  

Answer 3

You have every right to be pissed off, I certainly would be. But then my ethnic group somehow doesn't stand accused of quite so many crimes. I say this not out of false pride or any particular feeling of superiority, I have none, but merely out of the cold , hard reality of statistics, what I read in the paper, where the most murders, rapes and drug deals happen and who the perpetrators generally are. Beyond that no one really cares what skin color you have, honestly- that's not the issue. Unfortunately you bare a portion of the burden of your ethnicity. It's not fair but there is a way to change this and that is entirely just and fair.  

Answer 4

If someone is agitated, that takes priority over the reason for the stop.

My safety is more important than telling the motorist what he probably already knows.

Answer 5

I have a good story that happened to me last week.

I was just finishing up a car stop of a white driver (expired May 2008 tags is what I stopped and cited him for) When I observed a white van pass me on a local highway. The van didn't have a front plate and the tag was expired in June 2008. Also due to the tint on the window, I could not see the driver or any passengers. I stopped the vehicle for the violations and talked with the driver (a black male and his black wife was the passenger). The driver told me they had been buying a house and moving the last month so they hadn't had a chance to renew the tags and the front plate got lost awhile back and they hadn't found it.

Cool, I went back to my car and has halfway done filling out a written warning for the violations when dispatch finally gave me the driver's information back (license revoked with limited driving privileges due to a DWI) . He also had a warrant for his arrest, but the issuing agency was busy and did not want to extradite.

In my state a limited driving privilege means you can legally drive to work, school, church, alcohol treatment classes ect. So I went up and asked them where they were heading, as it would help me learn if he was in violation of the law or not.

At that point his wife went nuts, accused me of being racist, only stopped them because they were black, I had no right to know where they were going ect. She finished off her rant by presenting me with her local press ID and announcing that she was a reporter for a local news channel and if I didn't let them go, I would be investigated.

I did let them go....after giving the driver 3 citations. Because I found out they were going to the movies, in violation of his license. So he got (driving while revoked, no front plate, expired tags)

I invited the reporter to come down to the station any time and we could thousands of hours of video of me making car stops on people of all races (about 80% of them are white though) and treating everyone the same. But she declined. Oh well.

It's funny, if a cop stops a white person for a violation of the law and asks them a question, the officer is doing his job. If it's a black person, it is simply driving while black and the cop is a racist.

The moral of the story, I would be more inclined to believe that Pierce was done wrong...but I've heard literally hundreds of black people scream racism, when in fact, racism was not present.