Okay, whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAZ3umt7v0
She clearly runs the stop sign at 1:16 of the dashcam video, right in front of the cop car. What was he supposed to do? Nothing? Let her go because she’s black?
And why are we even talking about this? The officer had not one thing to do with this woman’s death.
If you want to know why a person was arrested, read their arrest report.
Or be lied to by the media.
I’m sure one source is just as good as every other source. Right?
Right.
Okay, let me take this step by step.
The wiki article you quoted, and this youtube video both verify my initial conclusion after reading the article, which I clearly stated in my first post: that something else is going on here.
My reason for that assessment is because people do not get pulled over for failing to use a turn signal. It may be an auxiliary reason stated on a ticket, but it is not a primary reason. (Unless, I suppose, an officer desperately needs to make his ticket quota. But around here, the quotas can easily be met by ticketing speeders.)
Yet the article stated that that was the reason she was pulled over.
Again, the references that YOU found clearly indicate that the unused turn signal was NOT the reason she was pulled over. The real reason was that she ran a stop sign—something that will get anyone pulled over (including me; the only traffic ticket I have ever received was for running a stop sign in October, 1979).
But the article stated that she was pulled over for failing to use a turn signal. And implied that she was booked into jail for failing to use a turn signal.
Now, instead of knee jerk reactions over my restating exactly what the article said, try, for a moment, to consider why the writer of that article chose to misrepresent the incident as her being pulled over and booked in jail for the relatively common and minor offense of failing to use the turn signal.
Could it be that the writer hid facts in order to fit the narrative that blacks are unfairly singled out for persecution by police officers? Could it be that the writer is trying to create another Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, “gentle giant” Michael Brown? Could it be that the writer is trying to incite more race riots?
Think about it.
The story that a *black* woman was pulled over, arrested, and sent to jail for failing to use her turn signal, something that millions of people do every day—yes, in front of police, even—with no consequence is outrageous.
However, the full story that she was pulled over for running a stop sign—and that the non-use of the signal was included among her offenses—and that she assaulted the officer—well, the story isn’t all that outrageous now, is it?
So the only real story here is that the police station should have had her under suicide watch, but didn’t.
You need to learn that what is left out of articles is as important as what is put in. And stop being obsessed about the unimportant details.