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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-police-question-us-citizen-immigration-status/BEL AIR, Md. -- A U.S. citizen was asked her immigration status while taking a walk in her neighborhood in Maryland. The Bel Air Police Department is owning up to its misstep and says it will learn from the incident, CBS Baltimore station WJZ-TV reports.
I didnt expect this to happen in Bel Air. Walking while brown? He said, No, no, no, nothing like that, Bel Air resident Aravinda Pillalamarri said.
Pillalamarri told WJZ-TV Bel Air police officers demanded her ID after a resident called her in as suspicious.
I had just come out for a walk, so I didnt have my ID. And he said, Why dont you have ID? Are you here illegally? Pillalamarri said.
DLevine
(1,788 posts)"They were trying to figure out why there was some hesitation to provide identification, Moore said. Thats why he asked if she was illegal.
Yes, how dare a non-white person think they can walk in their own neighborhood without showing their papers.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)or at the very least given some strong counseling.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)Love to know what made this person 'suspicious'
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)On edit: skin color was always probable cause. They're just expanding the tonal palette a few shades
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Snort
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028548512
This is liberal Maryland near Aberdeen north of Baltimore. Listening to her blatantly American accent helps highlight the absurdity.
Many of us have encountered this sort of nonsense from regular people our whole lives. It's disturbing to see it from police too.
There is no "American" look. America is diverse but some people just can't handle it and refuse to accept it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)turning into Nazi Germany at a rate faster than anyone could have imagined. I am afraid about how far this can go.
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)but they Trump/Pence/ Bannon want to make Amerika White again.
They do not believe in diversity.
mfcorey1
(10,997 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)So walking while Brown is suspicious now?
This truly exposes the racism in the police. Bad apple alert. That police department needs to do an internal review of this.
Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)is police collaboration with the insanity of this crap. This must be publicized every time it happens.
llmart
(15,501 posts)Why didn't the police ask a few more questions of the caller, such as, "What is the person doing that looks suspicious to you?" and then make the decision to tell the caller, "There's nothing illegal about walking down the street."
We will probably never know the truth about what the police asked this caller, so I'll reserve judgment, but I highly doubt there was anything "suspicious" other than brown skin.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)find out about the caller. after all in some states if you call in man with a gun the police are likely to say, that's his right ma'am.
Delmette2.0
(4,143 posts)+1
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)". . . after a resident called her in as suspicious."
JESUSGODDAMCHRISTONACRUTCH!!!! A woman walking down the sidewalk is suspicious? Was she carrying a weapon? . . . a pressure cooker bomb? . . . dynamite? No, she was brown-skinned.
The lunatics are running the asylum.
BumRushDaShow
(127,320 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)after "a resident called him in as suspicious."
William S. Burroughs: We are becoming a nation of finks.