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Unbelievable. On second thought, not so much.
"Earlier this month, a police officer in Dayton, Ohio, tailed a man by the name of John Felton for two miles, then pulled him over for failing to use a turn signal 100 feet prior to making his turn. To be clear: Felton used a turn signal, but he apparently didn't put it on early enough.
Only after handing over a written warning did the officer acknowledge the real reason he'd pulled over Felton, a black man who was driving a car with out-of-state plates: He had "made direct eye contact" with the officer.
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"No disrespect, I don't have anything against police officers," Felton tells the officer, "but all the shit that's going on now, that's some scary shit to have a police officer just trailing you. ... Why were you trailing me?"
"Because you made direct eye contact with me and held onto it while I was passing you," he replies. "If you want to keep talking about it, I'll just give you a citation for the violation and we can take it to court. I'm not going to argue about it anymore."
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cop-pulls-over-black-man-making-eye-contact_55e0ad60e4b0b7a96338e614
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Black guy. Out of state plates. Obviously a criminal. There is no room in the tiny cop brain for any other possibility.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Just another asshole cop.
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)"Just like our president."
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)but with a little scraping and groveling, I bet he can get it down to a misdemeanor.