Does just being black give the police "probable cause" to stop you?

The Field Negro education series continues.

So if you are reading this and happen to be black, you can relate to the experience of the Brown brothers in Colorado, recently.

"Two brothers, Benjamin and Ryan Brown, were stopped for DWB (Driving While Black) in Colorado Springs, CO.

 

Ryan, who was a passenger in the car, recorded the so-called routine traffic stop via mobile phone, in which officers gave no cause as to why their vehicle was stopped and the brothers subsequently detained.

 

On Tuesday, Roland Martin and the NewsOne Now Straight Talk panel discussed the disturbing Colorado Springs incident and how vitally important the cell phone recording of the incident was in bringing this injustice to the forefront.

 

As a result of the video, the ACLU of Colorado has taken up the Brown brothers’ case, citing they were handcuffed, searched, then detained without reason or fault.

 

During Tuesday’s NewsOne Now segment, panelist Avis Jones-DeWeever highlighted the ACLU’s Mobile Justice App that can be used to record an incident with law enforcement officers and then send the recording to the organization.

 

From aclu-mo.org:

The ACLU of Missouri Mobile Justice smartphone app was created to empower individuals to hold Missouri law enforcement agencies accountable for their actions. It has four main features:  

Record- allows citizens to capture exchanges between police officers and themselves or other community members in audio and video files that are automatically emailed to the ACLU of Missouri.  

Witness- gives citizens the option to alert nearby Mobile Justice App users when they are stopped by police so that they can move toward the location and document the interaction.

Report- gives citizens the option to provide a more-detailed account of their interactions with police in an incident report, which will be transmitted directly to the ACLU of Missouri.

Panelist Delegate Jay Walker, Chair of Price George’s County House Delegation, had some reservations about recording encounters with law enforcement.

 

He told Martin, host of NewsOne Now, that he was “conflicted” with the notion of citizens recording their encounters with law enforcement, saying, “with social media, everybody is trying to record everything right-away, but you’re going to have to go back to the type of protocol that you have to have with law enforcement when they come along.” [Watch video]

 

So after watching the video, what do you think?

CWB can be just as bad as DWB.

I am in a bad mood right about now. I just saw my birds go down to a bunch of powder blue white hat wearing losers from the left coast. That is not cool.

Chip, please get some boys in here who know how to play defense, ASAP, or it's going to be a very long season.

Anyway, it's another sad day in America if you were hoping that the color aroused disorder afflicting many in the majority population had gone away.
As a country we have come a long way, but we obviously have a long way to go.

Down in North Carolina it is now not only dangerous to DWB, it's hazardous to your health as a black man if you crash while black as well.

"An unarmed man who was shot dead after running toward police officers in Charlotte, North Carolina, may have been just trying to get help after crashing his car, police said.

A woman called 911 after Jonathan Ferrell, 24, began knocking insistently on her front door in a leafy residential neighborhood in Charlotte at about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

The woman, who immediately closed the door on Ferrell after seeing it was not her husband, may not have been aware that he had just crawled out of his wrecked car in nearby woods, police said.

Three police officers arrived, finding Ferrell a short distance from the woman's house. As soon as the officers got out of their vehicles, Ferrell started running toward them, police said.

One officer unsuccessfully fired a Taser at Ferrell, but he kept running. Randall Kerrick, another officer, then shot Ferrell several times with his service weapon, killing him, police said."' [Source]

Poor Jonathan, he never learned the rules of behavior when around the po po. Sadly, now we have to teach our young black folks how to act after they drive and have an accident as well. Driving while black (DWB), and now crashing while black (CWB). Lord have mercy!

Jonathan was a former football player, so this story might get some attention.
America loves her Negro football players. At least when they are on their team.

Now don't get it twisted, it's not only those Southern Boss Hogg  type cops who shoot first and ask questions, later. Up in New York the boys in blue are just as bad.

"Two police officers fired on a man who was acting erratically and dodging cars on a busy Manhattan street Saturday night, wounding two bystanders and sending people running for cover, authorities said.

Police said the man made movements suggesting he had a weapon, though he turned out to be unarmed. The officers' shots missed him, and he was eventually brought down by a stun gun.

 

Authorities identified the man as Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn. He faces multiple counts including menacing, riot, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and resisting arrest. He was in custody, and The Associated Press couldn't locate a phone listing for his home." [Source]

 

I am guessing Glenn is not of the Irish persuasion. Just a guess. If he was, those officers would not have been shooting into a crowd full of innocent people to prevent him from pulling an imaginary weapon.

 

But back to North Carolina. The officer who suffers from extreme color- aroused emotions was arrested for manslaughter and is now out on $50,000.00 bail.

 

"Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter," the police department said in a statement."

 

Poor Officer Kerrick is kicking himself right about now. But hey, color arousal can take a hold of you so fast that you sometimes just don't know how to fight it.

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