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womanofthehills

(8,584 posts)
Fri May 18, 2018, 05:00 PM May 2018

Cops search black mans car because he had tree stuff on his window

A black Kansas man was stopped by police and had his car searched for drugs after an officer spotted tree debris on his window.

Rudy Samuel streamed video of the traffic stop Sunday evening on Facebook Live, after an officer pulled him over for failing to signal within 100 feet of a turn, reported The Wichita Eagle.

The video shows the Winfield police officer remove what he calls “vegetation stuff” from the driver’s side window seal, and Samuel says the debris is “tree stuff.”

The officer says he’s going to place the item in a bag, and Samuel denies that it’s drug-related.

“I don’t even smoke,” he says.

The officer orders Samuel out of his car, and he tells the driver that he doesn’t have to test the item before searching for drugs.


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/dont-even-smoke-black-man-films-kansas-cops-search-drugs-spotting-tree-stuff-outside-car-window/?comments=disqus

Cop also turned off guys phone (but it still recorded sound) - I thought police could not do that.
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Cops search black mans car because he had tree stuff on his window (Original Post) womanofthehills May 2018 OP
So this stupid cop thinks he had weed on his car window? SummerSnow May 2018 #1
he just watched Up In Smoke lame54 May 2018 #3
We live in a strange society SummerSnow May 2018 #5
Total racial profiling - the cop said driver's turn signal wasn't put on at 100 feet womanofthehills May 2018 #4
You gotta love the comments on Raw Story on this womanofthehills May 2018 #2
They can't legally turn off his phone. NutmegYankee May 2018 #6
Police harassment and oppression of the citizenry fueled by racial bias Devil Child May 2018 #7

womanofthehills

(8,584 posts)
4. Total racial profiling - the cop said driver's turn signal wasn't put on at 100 feet
Fri May 18, 2018, 05:11 PM
May 2018

the driver says it was put on at 100 feet. Not even a dispute about the signal being on. Then the weed on the window shit.

NutmegYankee

(16,178 posts)
6. They can't legally turn off his phone.
Fri May 18, 2018, 05:46 PM
May 2018

But as no force anywhere in the USA will punish them, they get to do whatever they want to do.

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