Cops Arrest This Man For Trying To Do His Job

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[tblue37]

1. Could you explain for us deafies? Thanks. nt

[Mr. Evil]

3. He was canvassing for a politician.

Someone called police about a 'suspicious person' in the neighborhood (most likely scared shitless white snowflake). The young man was knocking on doors just doing his job. Now we know that canvassing for a politician while black is dangerous, too.

[tblue37]

5. Good grief! This is so wrong.

[Mr. Evil]

7. Yup.

On so many levels.

[tblue37]

8. And yet so damned common.

[madaboutharry]

4. Racist citizen calls police on a black man canvassing for a politician in Des Moines, Iowa.

Then a racist cop arrests him for canvassing for a politician while being a black man. Oh, wait… he was arrested for not bowing down to a racist cop.

Such bullshit! Really pisses me off!

[tblue37]

6. Thanks. nt

[Beakybird]

2. 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[llashram]

9. yep

a black person in a lily-white neighbourhood, very suspicious. Put your hands up or die. A white person in an African-american neighbourhood? Entitled. The former person posing as a president has unleashed his forces of scummy, nasty, dirty, ignorant, ego-driven(I'm right, I'm white) scum of the earth upon decent people. Did I mention racist scum? I am glad I am the age I am because I feel like I am watching, every goddamn day, the demise of democracy. In a lot of places, fascism's evil is in charge and America's rot is showing.

[snort]

10. I'm suspicious.

He was canvassing for a Republican.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. He was probably a contractor rather than a volunteer

Usually a candidate's supporter does this for free.

[IronLionZion]

12. Good popular candidates tend to have volunteers do it for free

GOP often has to pay people to canvass.

It's a lot more risky than it sounds. There are crazy people who point guns at them and yell to get off their property.

[exboyfil]

13. He was also charged and tried with the explanation

that he failed to answer questions (a violation of the 5th amendment).

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/04/30/keilon-hill-black-campaign-worker-iowa-david-young-acquitted-harassment-public-official-wdm-police/3621793002/

This is the prosecutor. He should know better and should have been admonished by the judge.

Keilon Clarmone Hill, 24, was acquitted of misdemeanor harassment of a public official Monday, according to his lawyer, Gina Messamer. The charge came after Hill, who is from Louisiana, was stopped and questioned by West Des Moines police while canvassing for David Young's congressional campaign in October. The exchange was caught on camera.

Clinton Ray, the officer who arrested Hill, testified Monday that he never found evidence that a crime had occurred outside of the alleged harassment. Ray was cleared of any wrongdoing by his department.


Tolbert [the prosecutor] said Hill's refusal to answer questions prevented officers from investigating a possible crime. Hill, holding fliers and dressed in a jacket and khaki pants, repeatedly asks why he was being stopped and what law he was breaking.

[Trueblue1968]

14. MR. HILL should have sued for DISCRIMNATION & for being falsely arrested

[roody]

15. He was canvassing for

Bernie. OOPS. That was a different young black man harrasses by West DM police.

[pansypoo53219]

16. he needs a white partner. don't scare the burbs!