Black Minnesota Police Chief Describes Being 'Taken Out at Gunpoint and Prone' by Law Enforcement

[Judi Lynn]

Katherine Fung 15 hrs ago

A Black Minnesota police chief is describing his own experience of being racially profiled by other law enforcement officials, saying he was once "taken out at gunpoint and prone out on the street."

"It was a traffic stop. I was actually going to my niece's sweet 16 birthday party, and a squad car pulled in behind me. And having been on the other end of that transaction, as it were, and for how long he followed me, I knew I was going to get pulled over," St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said on CNN's New Day on Friday.

"What I didn't know was there were going to be 10 or 15 other squads, and that turned into a felony stop where I was taken out at gunpoint and prone out on the street," he continued.

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The 26-year-old police veteran said the "saddest thing" about the encounter was that when he said he was a police officer, the officer approaching him responded with "Yeah, yeah, just shut up." Anderson said he complied with the police and ended up being handcuffed.

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[malthaussen]

1. So, the "saddest thing" was not that a citizen was jacked up by the cops again...

... but that the citizen did not receive the preferential treatment he expected because he also was a police officer.

-- Mal