Posted on 09/02/2014 7:19:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
Black UCLA Employee Claims Racial Profiling In Arrest By Campus Police
Claudius Gaines III, UCLA employee alleges he was racially profiled and his civil rights violated by campus police By RICHARD WINTON contact the reporter CrimeLaw EnforcementUCLA
UCLA police again accused of racial profiling during traffic stop A 46-year-old African American UCLA facilities employee arrested for obstruction and resisting arrest by campus police last week is accusing the department of racial profiling and violating his civil rights.
Claudius E. Gaines III was arrested after being stopped on Strathmore Drive shortly before midnight last Wednesday as he drove home from his shift at the university.
His attorney, Carl Douglas, said officers had no reason to stop the truck. When Gaines questioned why he was being stopped, Douglas said, the officers called for backup and he was threatened with being pepper-sprayed.
Gaines, a probationary employee with the facilities department at UCLA, is concerned that the incident could result in his losing his job, Douglas said.
“This is a 46-year-old father of three who's never been arrested, and now he will have this arrest on his record for the rest of his life,” Douglas said. “He did nothing wrong.”
The arrest comes after a legal settlement in July with a prominent African American judge over alleged mistreatment and racial profiling by the university's police officers during a traffic stop. In the settlement, the university agreed to pay $500,000, including $350,000 for scholarships,...
The university issued a statement disputing the attorney's account, saying that Gaines refused to comply with the officers' requests to provide them with his driver's license and proof of registration during the traffic stop.
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Of course he does.
That's the money line right there.
Obama said the UCLA police acted ‘stupidly.’ /sarc.
And why would he not? Sounds like he could win the lottery...
Racial profiling is simply the sound application of intelligence. Had it been widely used, 9/11 (which, of course, is fully attributable to Kommie KKKlintoon) would never had happened.
“Gaines, a probationary employee with the facilities department at UCLA, i”
What’s a probationary employee?
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In public service in cal you have a probationary period, usually up to 1 year during which it is supposed to be easier to dump you if you can’t do the job.
“...which was a bogus charge because they were stopping everybody that was drivin’ down that particular sidewalk... and that’s profilin... and profilin’ is wrong.”
Ron White, “They Call Me Tater Salad”
He further said:
Oh-hoh-hoh-hoah,
Oh-hoh-hoh-hoah,
Oh-hoh-hoh-hoah,
Oh-hoh-hoh-hoah!
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting,
Those kicks were fast as lightning,
In fact, it was a little bit frightening,
But they fought with expert timing!
Thanks-——I thought that might be the case but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it mentioned that way in a newspaper article.
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Still don’t get the tater salad joke.
America’s cotton-picking-greed is biting her in the ass now.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ron_White#The_Tater_Salad_Story
All jokes aside...the UCLA employee is just looking for a paycheck. Some ambulance chasing attorney got to him and convinced him to go for an early retirement.
I doubt if it applies to Affirmative Actions.
Yep. Someone took note of that and decided he wanted a big payday too.
According to songwriter and probationary university egg-head Carl Douglas, if the police stop you in your car (or truck if, as here, you are a pathetic poser) and ask for your license and rehistration, it’s cool if you’re a white motorist but racist if you’re black.
Barry needs to host another beer summit. Maybe Carl can write a song about it.
In most jobs, new hires are given a probation period of 60-90 days. If they fail to perform the jobs as expected or violate company rules, they are fired.
“Obstruction and resisting arrest” are often bogus charges, especially when no other charges are filed.
The guy might have a case.
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