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Here's a video with a textbook example of police racial profiling in Des Moines, IA...
Heads up, no one will be shot or beaten in this video, thank gawd. But even knowing that, it'll raise your blood pressure to watch this mess anyway.It's clearly obvious that the only reason that the car was stopped was because the driver and passenger were black. There wasn't even a traffic infraction. There was no reasonable suspicion that any crime had been committed at all, other than the crime of existing in Des Moines, IA while black.
A complete fishing expedition.
After the cops flashed its lights on the vehicle and it came to a complete and immediate stop:
- The cops immediately and falsely accused the men of possessing weapons and narcotics
- Lied, saying that they "smelled" marijuana... There was no marijuana, the men didn't even smoke
- Repeatedly asked them if they owned the car
- Demanded the car's key fob be turned over
- Didn't even bother to run the driver's license, registration and insurance before body searching them and detaining them in the back of the squad vehicle
- Conducted a search of the vehicle without any consent whatsoever, including the empty trunk
- Repeatedly threatened them with arrest for asking why they were stopped in the first place
- Never gave any reason for the stop or why they were being detained other than saying, "Because I said so"
- Attempted to coerce a confession of having possessed narcotics when there were no drugs in the car at all
- And then watch out where the cop tried to gaslight the men and tried to buddy up with them at the end.
This is pretty much some of the worst policing I've ever seen in my entire life:
This is why they kneel. And yet, some wypipo will still have the nerve to question why black people can't trust the police. Of course, the Cops-Are-Never-Wrong crowd has already gone out of their way to defend this bullshit... Check out the video's YouTube comments, if you have the stomach.
Racial profiling is bad, unjust and incompetent policing, right there on video and as plain as the nose on your face.
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