White cop pulls over Black driver for driving five miles below the speed limit.

[MrScorpio]

By the way, the driver was issued a warning for driving five miles beneath the speed limit.

It's pretty obvious why.

[yuiyoshida]

1. In Santa Barbara I was pulled over for

going 5 miles under the speed limit. I had never heard of that., I didn't get a ticket but they told me they thought it was strange that I was going that slow. With all the people speeding by me, you would have thought they CHP would go after a car going over 70 mph!

[lapfog_1]

2. 65 in a 70???

good grief.

[marble falls]

17. I was pulled over in Califoria in a middle lane doing about 10 miles over the speed limit ...

and was told I was impeding the flow of traffic and told to keep up or get into a another lane further right. Between LA and San Diego.

[aeromanKC]

3. Oooooh, his superirors would ne notified for sure on this if it were me!!

There is a minimum, but it is like 45 in a 70.

[KT2000]

4. If he was going 5 under in the fast lane

that would be one thing. This was harassment.
I would love to see this jerk pull over the Army vehicles going 30 in a 65 as is common on I-5. Never happen.

[B Stieg]

5. Well, crackers gonna crack...

They just can't resist. Guy's a sheriff, too. I don't trust any of these "Posse Comitatus" idiots.
"Sheriff of the county," indeed.

[betsuni]

6. Good thing the movie "Speed" didn't have one of those cops in it.

[CloudWatcher]

7. Driving too slow

Many years ago, my father (old white guy) was pulled over for driving too slow. It is a common sign of DUI or other impairment. But then .. I've been questioned for just walking in the middle of the night Good thing we don't live in a police state.

[Demovictory9]

8. its obvious he invented a reason for the stop by the way the cop gave him thw warning w/o explanatio

and walked away quickly

[safeinOhio]

9. This should be a training film for all LEOs.

I'm glad he videoed it and he needs to send it to the Sheriff or Chief with a note about how it will be turned over to the ACLU, NAACP and all local news outlets.
His first question should have been to ask the LEO, sir what is the legal speed minimum on this highway and how many cars were lined up behind me that I was impeding?
The 90% of all LEOs that are bad cops, make the 5% that are good cops look bad.
Thanks for this post.

[Duppers]

10. Where did this happen?

Stay away from those racist idiots.

[Duppers]

11. Sampson County, NC.

[johnthewoodworker]

12. For all you kids out there, your local PD is the best gang you can join.

What other job offers the opportunity to harass the community with impunity. It's a bullies dream job.

Oh, and I do know there are good cops. But you will rarely read an article where a good cop criticizes a bad one.

[mac2766]

13. Are there any police officers reading this thread?

I'm hoping that there are law enforcement individuals on DU that can shed some light on the situation.

I've been pulled over at least a dozen times over the past 10 or so years and have received warnings for various things. The last ticket I got was over 20 years ago in Augusta, GA. I deserved the ticket.

I've been driving for 40 years and this seems to be a change in the approach of law enforcement. It's sort of like "stop and frisk". Maybe they're looking for a reason to search a vehicle.

[aka-chmeee]

14. Around here, driving too slow in the evenings is as likely or more likely to get

you pulled over than speeding by the same amount.

[handmade34]

15. that makes my blood boil

don't know whether to cry or scream... so wrong, so despicable

[BaileyBill]

16. Being in a rental car

may have had as much to do with it as speed. Drug couriers often use rental cars and drive cautiously, but that doesn't excuse this. There was no legitimate reason to issue a warning, though. Another victim of the bogus war on drugs.

[spudspud]

19. Missed it by "that" much. nt

[BaileyBill]

29. No clue what you mean.

Care to expound?

[Rural_Progressive]

22. Yeah, the warning was a bit over the top

as I pointed out in my post below, not an unusual exchange between rural LE and ANYONE these days. My wife who is a little old white lady (please don't tell her I said this) has dealt with more than this.

Those of us who live in rural America have to drive long distances, there aren't many people on the road, and many of these guys just have too much time on their hands and too little to do most of the time. When something bad happens like a multiple car pile up there aren't enough of them but most of the time they're just cruising and looking for a way to deal with boredom.

Like you point out, the rental car, being black were just to much for Deputy Dawg to resist doing the stop. My wife had far less pleasant encounter for doing 5mph over.

[llashram]

18. typical white american police culture

as it pertains to African-americans. Trump has made things exponentially worse. Starting with his rallies throwing out AA who might disagree with him. Glad this gentleman made it out alive in this run-in with a david duke cretin under cover of badge and gun. All these generations of small, very small increments of equality and justice doled out to people of color and it is still dangerous to DWB, WWB, BWB, RWB, LWB. Disgusting.

[spudspud]

20. Yep. nt

[Rural_Progressive]

21. To all of you who DON'T live in rural America

I am an old white guy who drives an old pickup truck. I have been stopped for things just as ridiculous as this and spoken to pretty much the same way this deputy spoke to this gentleman.

They don't have a lot to do, many of them are on ego/alpha male trips and they just love to exercise their "authority" over anyone they can hassle. Was there racism involved here? Probably. Was this an unusual encounter for any stranger driving rural America, sorry but no.

[LanternWaste]

23. I dig the way you hedged your bets on that one.

Having grown up in the Texas hill country with an experience directly opposite from yours, all we can validly infer is that while anecdotal evidence may sooth our biases, it certainly doesn't measure the collective experience.

[Rural_Progressive]

24. Well from one good ol country boy to another

I have no idea what point you were trying to make with your post.

[LaurenOlimina]

26. Such bullshit

[unblock]

27. i've been pulled over for the wackiest reasons

(white male, about 50 years old at the time)

once when i was on my way to a casino for a poker tournament, i was driving along a residential road (my nav system identified a shortcut) at exactly the speed limit (i noticed the police following me) for a stretch and eventually he pulled me over.

after taking care of the usual id and registration and such, he asked where i was going and why i was on that road. i told him, he asked why i didn't take the more major route, i told him i was just following my nav system.

i guess they don't get many people taking that route and he thought i was suspicious somehow?

anyway, he told me ok, but the reason he pulled me over was that the frame on my license plate was obscuring some of the lettering.

the actual license number was easily in the clear, as was "connecticut".

but tiniest of a fraction of a bit of "constitution state" was covered up by the frame (that the dealer had installed, of course). you could still easily read it, but ok, yeah, a tiny portion was covered up.


apparently that's technically a no-no. now, if you look, you'll notice that a huge portion of cars have such frames, as dealers and others love them, and a huge portion of those frames obscure some tiny portion of that lettering.


which is one of a number of things that gives the police that power to arbitrarily pull over anyone the want -- and not tell you the real reason they pulled you over.



obviously no racism involved in my case, but clearly such things can easily be abused.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

28. Pulled over for driving while black. Shameful. eom