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Update—Investigation launched after Ohio cops stop & frisk teenagers for "walking while Black."
Police make fun of kids for being poor: "Enjoy poverty!"
"It’s not my fault you live in this F'ing high crime neighborhood!"
Officers involved are still working the beat in Toledo.
Many of you will never have to teach your children how to survive an encounter with people sworn to protect them. Black families do it every day.
Teenagers stopped, frisked, mocked for being poor, and humiliated with “enjoy poverty” and comments about their neighborhood—and the officers are still on the street.
A racist does not care whether the target is a child, a woman, an elder, or a grown man. Racism does not check age before it dehumanizes.
This is the America Black people are told to stop talking about.
As a social worker, one thing I was taught in college was that you always respect a person's home. Of course, I was raised on the same principles and values. Does not matter if the home is unkempt or not to your liking, it is their home, respect it.
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A precursor of things to come.
The footage appears to show cops tripping over their bikes and using the incidents to arrest demonstrators.
Arrested for walking while black.
Seattle PD officer Gene Schubeck aka Julio Ernesto (possible Proud Boy [right wing ultranationalist paramilitary group]).
Seattle, Washington.
08 Dec, 2019.
Jacksonville’s enforcement of pedestrian violations raises concerns that it’s another example of racial profiling. (Nov. 16th 2017)
Blacks, then, were nearly three times as likely as whites to be ticketed for a pedestrian violation. Residents of the city’s three poorest zip codes were about six times as likely to receive a pedestrian citation as those living in the city’s other, more affluent 34 zip codes.
Tickets for some of the less familiar statutes were issued even more disproportionately to blacks. Seventy-eight percent of all tickets written for “walking in the roadway where sidewalks are provided” were issued to blacks. As well, blacks accounted for 68 percent of all recipients of tickets issued for “failing to cross the road at a right angle or shortest route.”
John Fitzgerald Kendrick, a truck driver, got out of his truck after encountering Jacksonville sheriff’s officers in April of 2015. Once out of his truck, he was immediately ordered to the ground by an officer, who pointed a Taser gun at him. He was arrested and issued a ticket for “walking in the roadway where sidewalks are provided.” Kendrick fought the ticket and it was dismissed by a judge.
damn right the judge should throw that out.
More:
Ivey said stopping people for pedestrian violations as a means for establishing probable cause to search them was also fully justified.
“Shame on him that gives me a legal reason to stop him,” Ivey said.
*tableflip gif*
The issuing of pedestrian tickets in Jacksonville, a city of 880,000, does not produce large sums of money for the city’s coffers. There were slightly more than 2,200 tickets issued over the five years examined by the Times-Union and ProPublica, accounting for just under $70,000.
But the ProPublica/Times-Union analysis shows that more than half of the 2,200 pedestrian tickets from the past five years have not yet been resolved, meaning that the fines have not been paid or the cases adjudicated. Fines and fees associated with open cases are sent to collections agencies, and those whose cases were sent for collection can see their credit damaged. The tickets also can lead to suspensions or revocations of driver’s licenses. Even after the tickets are paid, the tickets can cost a person points on their driver’s license or commercial license, which is especially damaging for truck and bus drivers.
I’m not gonna copy the whole article. It’s definitely worth a read. Another section of it is dedicated to Jacksonville being extremely pedestrian unfriendly. Some areas, crosswalks are more than a mile apart... but you can totally get a ticket for not walking to that crosswalk. The city also doesn’t even have a master map of sidewalks, so had no idea where they exist or not and what type of repair they’re in.
ProPublica is VERY good about posting follow up info, so if you’re seeing this reblogged long after the post date (Nov. 16th 2017) check the link and there may well be additional articles at link about what has happened since the report.
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Phoenix police did not appreciate a Black man questioning their authority as to why they had handcuffed him for simply crossing a street to
Phoenix police did not appreciate a Black man questioning their authority as to why they had handcuffed him for simply crossing a street to catch a bus – especially considering they had already removed the handcuffs and told him he was free to go.
But William Kitchen knew he had committed no crime, so he asked the arresting officers exactly what law he had broken to have been handcuffed in the first place.
He also mentioned he needed the information to pass along to attorneys, suggesting he may file a lawsuit over what he believed was an unlawful detainment. And he asked for names and badge numbers.
That is when the cops decided to re-arrest him, placing him in handcuffs and transporting him to jail where he spent the night on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a thoroughfare.
