cop ok with "really nice car" driven not by "young native male" but "middle aged Asian"

[Demovictory9]

A police officer's racial profiling of 'really nice car' driver shows persistent racial tensions in this South Dakota city

The fallout from a police officer who followed a car thinking the man behind the wheel was Native American is testing the fragility of race relations in a South Dakota city.

The police officer in Rapid City resigned after he allegedly reported that "a young Native American male (was) driving a really new Mercedes car." While city officials see the officer's resignation in lieu of termination over alleged racial profiling as swift action and a sign of progress in a town with a long history of racial tensions, Indigenous organizers say the incident was not isolated.

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Last November, Jeffrey Otto, the former Rapid City police officer, was taking a girl to her foster home when he saw a car with out-of-state plates making a "prolonged stop at flashing red lights," and started following it, according to a grievance order signed by a South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation judge.

That agency had reviewed a grievance petition filed by the officer earlier this year and Rapid City officials referred CNN to the state's account of the incident.

When Otto reported the car, he told another officer that he wanted "to keep an eye on this car because it's a young Native male driving this really nice car," and followed the car to a hotel parking lot, Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender told CNN, citing a police report and internal investigation of the incident.

"Alright, so I watched it park, and it's actually a middle-aged Asian guy that got out. So yeah, it's going to be nothing," Otto told the officer, according to the state's department of labor order.

After Otto was called to speak with his supervisor about the incident, he was sent home, the state agency order said. Less than a week later, he was fired from the police department for racial profiling, according to a letter signed by Rapid City Police Chief Don Hendrick.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-police-officer-s-racial-profiling-of-really-nice-car-driver-shows-persistent-racial-tensions-in-this-south-dakota-city/ar-AAMYTFy?ocid=msedgntp

[onethatcares]

1. for $2000.00 Alex

what is, making a "prolonged stop at flashing red lights,"

Maybe you're from out of town and am trying to figure out where the heck you are. Glad he got canned.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

2. Conflicting Info

So did he resign or get fired? The story states both.

[Jim__]

3. He was fired and the PD later changed his status to resigned.

From the article cited in the OP:

Otto appealed his firing with the state but recently dropped his petition when a state judge ruled that he and the city would need to argue the case over a hearing, Landeen and Otto's attorney told CNN.

The former officer came to an agreement with the city to drop his appeal before a hearing was held when the police department revised the reasoning for his departure from "racial profiling" to "lack of judgment" and his status changed to "resigned in lieu of termination," attorneys for the city and the officer said.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

4. Is that like

She dumped me but upon further review, I broke up with her? lol