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Not using turn signal? Straight to jail.
it was probably more the lack of a driving license that did it, but ofc the headline leaves that out
Nah, it was the driving while black and foreign born around bigots with unchecked power.
well, driving while black is what got him pulled over. then the rest is what got him arrested
Nah, that was mostly the Jamaica thing. And also the driving while black.
You're not going to see a white guy be deported for driving without a license in Trump's America, except MAYBE Ukrainians once they run out of nonwhite people to victimize and Miller's quotas still aren't fulfilled.
that was included in my "the rest", yes
Lmao, Conyers GA is 70% black. They're going to keep themselves quite busy if they only pull over people for driving while black.
The county Conyers is in is also majority black.
Honestly I wouldn't make this one a race issue. These small GA towns just keep cops posted at every entry and exit point to town. Their job is to ticket everything and generate revenue.
How much you want to bet that the PD is still majority white, Ferguson style?
So was Apartheid South Africa 🤷
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And whether they're told to or not, I guarantee that they're disproportionately targeting black people.
To be proportional to population for every 10 people they pull over 7 would be black.
As to your points the city council is split between white/black evenly. Chief of police is white but no other information about the force was available. At the county level out of the 3 commissioners 1 is black, and honestly not sure about the race of the other 2. Interestingly all 3 are women. The sheriff and sheriff's department are majority black. This isn't apartheid South Africa.
I really doubt this one was a race issue at the point of the initial stop. Like I said these small towns are notorious for stopping everyone for every minor traffic infraction. They just want your money. Have you ever spent any time in the state and towns like these or are you just manufacturing issues for your argument?
That still doesn't usually land you in jail, much less an overcrowded detention center with no oversight or accountability with the threat that you will be removed from the country, possibly to somewhere you have never been and have no connection to.