A black former White House staffer was moving into a new apartment. Someone reported a burglary.

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7. And it"s nothing new, as you know

Aides Erroneously Stopped By Police
AP, SEPTEMBER 27, 2000

WASHINGTON –– Two White House aides said they were traumatized, embarrassed and humiliated when gun-wielding police stopped them in a Washington suburb, erroneously believing they were driving a stolen car.

Bob Nash and his wife, Janis Kearney, both of whom are black, said in a three-page statement Wednesday in response to media inquiries that they were victims of racial profiling and were stopped for the "bogus crime of driving while black.” ... Describing the incident, the two White House staffers said after they were stopped by police, who, aiming pistols and shotguns, surrounded their vehicle, patted them down for weapons and handcuffed them.

"Pistols and shotguns were aimed at us until we were handcuffed. ... We were traumatized as a result of the stop," wrote Nash, adding that the incident left the two "embarrassed, humiliated and afraid for our lives."

Nash is director of the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House, and Kearny works as a special assistant to the president and records manager.

A county police spokesman, Capt. William O'Toole, said Nash's car was stopped because it was believed to be a car reported stolen in the same area about 45 minutes earlier. He said Nash was handcuffed for "his own safety" and maintained that Kearney was ordered to remain in the car.

Although police denied that Nash and his wife were stopped as result racial profiling, authorities have acknowledged that the stolen car was reported to have been taken by a black male.

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