Posted on 04/07/2025 8:49:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
ampa, FL – Newly released dash cam footage from an August 29, 2024, traffic stop in Tampa, Florida, has reignited controversy surrounding Pastor Carl Soto, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Restoration Inc., who is now suing the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) for $5.5 million. Soto claims Deputy Alex Almaguer used excessive force and racial bias during the stop, but conservatives on X are calling his reaction a textbook case of playing the victim—a narrative they say aligns perfectly with the left’s playbook.
The incident began when Almaguer pulled Soto over for an illegal license plate decal featuring the Joker, a violation of Florida statute, according to a criminal report affidavit. Dash cam footage, released on April 4, 2025 captures Soto immediately challenging the deputy: “I’m going to give you about .2 seconds to explain to me what you pulled me over for because I have not committed any traffic violations.” When Almaguer asked for his license, Soto refused, escalating the situation. The deputy eventually opened Soto’s car door, unholstered a taser, and handcuffed him on the ground after a brief struggle. Soto can be heard shouting, “You’re on my back, and I just had surgery,” claiming the incident exacerbated his recent back injuries.
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Soto’s $5.5 million civil rights lawsuit, filed on April 4, accuses HCSO of excessive force, racial profiling, and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. “This deputy had no regard,” Soto said at a press conference, per WTSP. “Because of his actions, this is a blatant direct violation to my civil rights.” The charges against Soto for resisting arrest without violence were dropped, but HCSO spokesperson Amanda Granit defended Almaguer, stating, “This deputy was trying to have this resolved… time and time again. This didn’t have to end this way, but it did because of Mr. Soto’s actions.”
Conservatives on X, like @MAGAJustice22, aren’t buying Soto’s narrative: “BLM co-founder gets pulled over, refuses to comply, and then cries racism—shocker.” @PatriotPulse added, “This is what they always do: defy the law, escalate, then play the victim.” A 2024 ABC Action News report noted Soto’s apology to HCSO in October, where he admitted his actions contributed to the arrest, but he maintains the stop was unjustified. For Trump supporters, the footage—viewed over 200,000 times on X—confirms their view of the left’s refusal to take accountability, with @America1stMAGA writing, “Same old BLM script: break the law, blame the cops.” As the lawsuit unfolds, conservatives are rallying behind the deputy, seeing this as another example of the left’s overreach.
Wow. Almaguer showed great patience and restraint toward that belligerent man.
Pretty sure that in this case, the police officer had no justification for threatening the use of a weapon.
I once commented to a post on Twitter about 12 years ago that a man who was a child molester and somehow got out of doing any prison time should have been “Tarred and feathered”. Well, that was the second strike against me and regarded as severely “racist”. After only 2 weeks on Twitter, I was banned for life. Their so called “fact checkers” never did any fact checking. The tarred and feathered form of torture goes way back and had nothing to do with slavery. Some slaves did get tarred and feathered but it was not strictly meant for slaves, any criminal could have met that fate.
Likely the bogus sticker was bait to get into a confrontation and file a law suit.
For someone who cannot stand on his feet, he seems ok there.
Anyone want to bet when hammiebuttboi gets involved with this ?
'Pastor' of what? For years I have heard Al Sharpton referred to as 'Reverend' 👎 I have never 'revered' Al Sharpton - for what? So many of these race baiters hide behind the Cross 🤨; that Georgia Senator - 'Reverend' Somebody - is a communist! ...and his 'church' provides him with a $ million mansion - free!
Have any of these predators ever asked, "What would Jesus do?" Humbug! ⤵🚮
He’s spot on
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles.
I don’t know how many times I’ve see a car rear ended with only the driver in it and 2 0r 3 people on the sidewalk would hop in that car for insurance scam in Chicago.
Sanction the lawyers who files these frivolous suits. That will go a long way to stopping this nonsense.
What is an “illegal license plate decal featuring the Joker” ?
(photo would be appreciated)
“I’m going to give you about .2 seconds to explain to me what you pulled me over for”
Well I just got this new taser that’s supposed to work really well on fat asses...
thx for the attempt, but shows nothing ..
-fJRoberts-
I would love to see those who cause misdemeanors to be placed in shackles at the county or town square so rotten fruit and vegetables can be thrown at them.
The humiliation alone will stop a lot of criminal activity.
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Not only the origin of the “word” racist— the fact that the word is used improperly all the time. When the word bigot, is actually what is meant.
It’s obvious that the wordsmiths of the Left came up with this to elevate the “thought crime” of basic bigotry (which is a choice made by all kinds of ethnic groups vs others, btw- across the world) into a sanctified mind crime of ... racism. Bigotry vs. Racism, and to the Progressives (who are really quite large bigots on their own, with pre-conceptions of “what people are thinking” invented for facile blaming) racism wins out at as a high mental crime which “their democracy” (devolving into tyranny, see UK) cannot abide. How ironic that the tyrants of Communism exhibit the strongest racism throughout their history (as was National Socialist German Workers Partei- a Leftist Socialist destroyer of Europe). How clever of Communists to try and paint Nazis as Right wing- to the right of ultra left Communists, surely.
I am a
Bigot,
Racist,
Homophobe, and
Hater. By telling myself that I am all of the above, I can not be affected by the name calling whatsoever. I just say “thank you” and go on about my day.
Even Booker T. Washington was complaining back in 1903 saying “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Lots of schools are named after Booker T. Washington. He was a very good man.
“The history of the word “racist” is very interesting, indeed. Its origin fascinating.”
It is too bad people are not taught the history of that word or its origin.
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