Evanston police violently assault and arrest black man for stealing his own car (VIDEO)

[egbertowillies]

This is yet another indication of how marginalized the life and existence of black men are in the eyes of the police and the community as a whole. Society needs help when one’s eyes lie to them based on the hue of those being watched.

Evanston Police released the dashcam video from 2015 that shows the arrest of a black man who was suspected of stealing a car that turned out to be his own. Fox 32 reported the following.

On October 10, 2015, Lawrence Crosby was working on his car around 7:00 PM when a woman passing by saw what she thought was an African American man breaking into a vehicle and stealing it. She called 9-1-1 and then followed the vehicle, relaying information to the dispatcher about the location. “Hi somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher. ”I Think the person just got into the car.”

Crosby, an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was driving from his apartment to campus when he was stopped. He had his own dashcam video recording in his car, and before the stop, he can be heard talking to someone saying he thought he was being followed. He was reportedly headed to the police station because of those suspicions, when police pulled him over in a church parking lot. The dashcam video shows him get out with his hands up with a cellphone in his hand and he then gets taken down by officers who thought they were dealing with someone who stole a car. …

Crosby was charged with resisting arrest and disobeying officer, but a judge threw out those charges. Crosby filed a civil rights lawsuit against Evanston Police in 2016 and that case is now pending.

My thoughts: https://egbertowillies.com/2017/01/14/evanston-police-violently-assault-arrest-black-man-stealing-car-video/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I saw this movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106266/

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Thanks for posting the video.

The cops were ridiculous!

The only slightly negative comment I'll make about the car owner is that he got out of the car (without being asked?) with an object (phone) in his hand. I'm glad it didn't turn out worse!