{"id":115482,"date":"2021-07-14T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115482"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:44:36","slug":"state-representative-claims-that-he-was-pulled-over-for-being-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115482","title":{"rendered":"State Representative claims that he was pulled over for being Black"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police bodycam footage showing John Thompson at a traffic stop. (Saint Paul, MN\/Minnesota House of Representatives)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A police officer pulls State Representative John Thompson (D) over. The officer saw him without a front license plate. The way that John Thompson took off from the light also caught the officer’s attention. In the video, the police officer hands Thompson his ticket. In response, Thompson claimed that the officer profiled him, and pulled him over, “for being black”.<\/p>\n

Chances are good that the officer just saw a vehicle without a front license plate. Then he saw this vehicle take of from the stop light at an unusual speed. It may not have been until the officer walked up and saw John Thompson for the first time that the later was seen as Black.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson then asks in the video why he was pulled over, which the officer said was due to his car having “No front plate, and the way you took off from the light back there.”<\/p>\n

“I’m too old to run from the police, man,” Thompson says. “You profiled me because you looked me dead in the face and I got a ticket for driving while Black. You pulled me over because you saw a Black face in this car, brother. There’s no way in hell I’m taking off with you behind me. … You looked in this car and busted a U-turn and got behind my car, and that’s the reason – ”<\/p>\n

The officer then tells the state representative that the interaction is being recorded on a bodycam.<\/p>\n

“I know. But what I’m saying is, what you’re doing is wrong, to Black men,” he says. “And you need to stop that. Thank you so much, but this ticket means nothing to me … What I’m saying to you is stop racially profiling Black men in their cars sir. Stop doing that.”<\/p>\n

The officer argues he was not racially profiling him, and eventually tells Thompson to have a good night and walks away.<\/p>\n

The bodycam footage does not have audio of the first 30 seconds between Thompson and the officer, and also does not show the lead-up to the traffic stop.<\/p>\n

The bodycam footage was released after St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell demanded an apology from Thompson for accusing the officer of racially profiling him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the article here<\/a>, and you could watch the video in this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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