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In reply to the discussion: Texas cops mistakenly pull over, arrest woman with 4 small children inside car [View all]whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Cops in Texas shoot first. The idea that the police automatically have a right to put you in handcuffs based on unfounded suspicion is ridiculous. One misstep and that woman and her kids would have been slaughtered.
They were close enough to see the color of the car didn't match the report
They were close enough to see the woman was not a man which didn't match the report.
They were close enough to see the kids in the car didn't match the report.
But most importantly, visibility was good enough to determine this was a black person driving.
Were they handcuffing white people as well, out of caution? You know, on the account of it being too dark for a witness report to be reliable.
OK, then. This was another bullshit stop, driving while black.
This incident will live on in the lives of these kids and community where they live, further flaming the rotting core of trust between public officials and private citizens.
How bad is Texas?
A 93-year-old woman who was fatally shot by a police officer outside her central Texas home was apparently upset that her nephew was trying to take away her car keys after the Texas Department of Public Safety had refused to renew her driver's license.
This cops second kill in two years. They fired him, of course. Too late for smoothing things over.
BTW - Darren Wilson is also from Texas.
Ice cream cone?
The right thing to do is for this woman to get a good attorney and sue the Texas town who did this.