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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen street cops racially profile and handcuff a black FBI agent it's just not a very good look.
To cops, one black suspect is as good as the next, apparently.
In two parts, from Rochester Minnesota:
First part:
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The second half of this second clip show more of the exchange between the agent and the supervisor.
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mcar
(42,334 posts)HAB911
(8,902 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)You have forfeited that proud title.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)I'm not relinquishing my state slogan because of a few idiots. Happy to say that police policies are under review and revision.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)The agent had every reason to treat them like he did, but he'll actually likely be reprimanded for acting unprofessional, because the FBI has very high standards.
The police had no right to put their hands on him or detain him. None.
KS Toronado
(17,247 posts)Wonder if it's because of his undercover training looking for drug dealers, he was just staying in character.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)The cops refused to say why they were detaining him. He was within his rights to just walk away.
At which point they would have shot him down like a dog, of course.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)A "warning", a wink, and, a nod.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)know what kind of message they send to the force.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)nt
Merlot
(9,696 posts)spudspud
(511 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Name and/or badge number, especially on a cellphone picture, is all you need.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)nevermind. The video is fake. There is some powerful disinformation going on online. We gotta watch out.
jayfish
(10,039 posts)PTWB
(4,131 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)Can anybody make out what was said? I also did not hear any response from the 2 dunces who proceeded to arrest this FBI agent. Shameful behavior on their part - arreetibg a black man for no good reason. but of course it doesnt surprise us.
Native
(5,942 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
llashram
(6,265 posts)if this video is 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years old. Has happened before in these great again United States and guaranteed, it will continue. You just don't get it.
Native
(5,942 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Ongoing. People are fed up. Idgaf when it was.
tblue37
(65,392 posts)tblue37
(65,392 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)... being the stupidest MFs. Yup!!
irisblue
(32,980 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Those two white cops are the stupidest MFs on the force, for sure.
They're thinking: "Now way is this guy anyone. We can do whatever we want to the dumb .... Oh, wait.. FBI? WTF? Who knew the FBI hired black guys. Shit!"
LAS14
(13,783 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)"He was looking at us. We felt threaten!!"
snowflakes.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Damn, that's just obscene profiling!
Raven123
(4,844 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)It happened to me in the past. I showed the cop my ID immediately, as he asked, and that was the end of it.
It was pretty ridiculous in my case too. Apparently some white teenager over a mile away had broke a car's windshield. The cop patrolled the area and saw me (a middle-aged white man who worked 2nd shift) sitting outside my apartment after work, smoking a cigarette.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)I love how he played them..
C Moon
(12,213 posts)"You're the stupidest ### I ever met."
malaise
(269,024 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)Police Chief: And meanwhile, you killed yourself a white man and picked yourself up a little money!
Suspect: I earned that money. Ten hours a day, seven days a week.
Chief: Coloured can't earn that. Its more than I make in a month! Where did you earn it?!
Suspect: Philadelphia.
Chief Gillespie: Mississippi?
Suspect: Pennsylvania.
Chief: Just how do you earn that kinda' money?
Virgil Tibbs: I'm a police officer!
NB: For the younger set, from the movie "In the Heat of the Night", Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, 1967.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)He's lucky they didn't put him under that 3-day psychological arrest.
rocktivity
marieo1
(1,402 posts)I love it - they wouldn't even let him talk and for darn sure they wouldn't listen. They didn't care who he was - they had all the power and then finally one of the PD looked in his wallet found out he was an FBI agent. Imagine if he hadn't been FBI what would've happened.
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SKKY
(11,810 posts)...yet, no, they gotta take door #3 to stupid.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)Racial profiling, maybe. AT no time does anyone say FBI.
Link to tweet
Edited to add: According to source it was taken a year ago and this is his friend.
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)I can't find proof that he is or that he is not an agent so that possibility seems to still exist but seems less likely than when posted.
It would seem that checking his ID let them to release him from cuffs. Why? I don't think we know, maybe the ID proved that he wasn't the suspected warrant violator.
Full video link to the 5 minute youtube thanks to your reply:
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)I zoomed the wallet and it appeared to be standard ID card only. There was no gold badge in the wallet.
At some point, if he were FBI or DEA, he would have said so...imo.
As to why they released him? They were on a specific mission to arrest with a warrant. If a name does not match the warrant they have no right to arrest.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)That dude was riffing Detective Axel Foley.