Lieutenant Kojak couldn't be reached for comment.
Posted on 05/17/2018 2:37:19 AM PDT by BBell
SOUTH ORANGE — A group of black parent activists are calling on a black school board member to step down after she was caught on video calling a white police officer's chief a “skinhead cop” during a traffic stop.
Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad was pulled over April 27 after an officer found her driving 37 mph in a 25 mph zone.
When the officer approached her driver-side window, Lawson-Muhammad begins by pointing out that she is on the Board of Education.
She then quickly breaks down into tears, saying that her daughter is going to be late for school “and I’m scared of cops.”
When the officer asks if he should call her an ambulance because she appears to be having a panic attack, she snaps back: “That’s a f*****g insult!”
After he writes her a ticket for speeding and not having a valid insurance card — but not one for not having a driver’s license after she is finally able to find it — Lawson-Muhammad argues with him about the insurance violation.
She concludes by saying she would call "Sheena" — South Orange Village President Sheena C. Collum — "and your skinhead cop chief, too."
On Wednesday, the South Orange-Maplewood Black Parents Workshop released a copy of the dash-cam video and called on Lawson-Muhammad to “issue a public apology to this officer.”
“If the situation was reversed, and an officer behaved in this manner toward an African-American civilian, we would have taken the officer and the department to task,” SOMA Black Parents Workshop Chairman Walter Fields said in a letter Wednesday to South Orange-Maplewood school board President Elizabeth Baker.
Fields said Lawson-Muhammad “attempted to exercise her civic privilege” during the traffic stop.
“To his credit, the officer remains calm and proceeds to act in accordance with his duties,” Fields’ letter says.
Fields’ group has been working to improve police-community relations following a 2016 incident in which the then-chief of the Maplewood police ordered cops to march black teens, who lived in the municipality, out of town.
The township suspended Chief Robert Cimino and Capt. Joshua Cummins last year for their roles in the incident. Officials allowed Cimino to retire rather than face a costly legal battle.
Two days before Fields’ group obtained a copy of the dash-cam video, he sent the school board president a letter raising alarm that Lawson-Muhammad may have abused her position during the traffic stop and “engaged in abusive behavior toward an officer.”
New Jersey 101.5 could not find a working phone number to reach Lawson-Muhammad for comment Wednesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, South Orange Police Chief Kyle Kroll said he had not read the letter from the black parents group. Kroll declined to comment other than to say that the officer “handled himself professionally.”
“If the situation was reversed, and an officer behaved in this manner toward an African-American civilian, we would have taken the officer and the department to task,” SOMA Black Parents Workshop Chairman Walter Fields said in a letter Wednesday to South Orange-Maplewood school board President Elizabeth Baker.
I'm not quite sure what Walter means by this.
Lieutenant Kojak couldn't be reached for comment.
Well done officer!!
In what world does a school board member think she’s a big deal?
Good grief. Thank God the audio was recorded.
What an arrogant Muslim b!tch.
Kudo’s to SOMA for demanding an apology. I think Fields meant that if an Officer had abused a motorist, blacks would be PO’ed too.
THE LEO WAS GREAT!
I would have had her out of the car and searched her for drugs.
Cops did well as usual but I do hope the cameras will malfunction one day and one of these mouthy plonkers will get the full Rodney King.
The word is BITCH.
Two instances in two days where racists have been destroyed by cops having body and/or dash cams proving their innocence.
Attention LEOs...cameras are becoming your best friends and the best tool for fighting racists.
Is the other incident you are referring to the lady who was stopped in Brunswick County, Va.?
The American taxpayers that feed this gubmint worker caste are fleeing NJ in droves; there is simply not enough fat left to keep this nonsense going. We are allowed to have no expectations of certain people...just pay and shut up.
It is only a matter of time before dash and body cameras on police will become just another racist mechanism of oppression. Remember where you heard it first.
Our world. For an elected official or government employee to think she deserves royal treatment is so common as to be unremarkable.
I think he means equal treatment under the law...
1. Classic privilege mentality. Her kids will inherit it.
2. She says “...fuc@ing..” something or other with her kid in the car. He will likely inherit THAT kind of respect for authority when he’s an adult. Hopefully not, but likely.
3. The she sweetly says, “I love you.” when the kid gets out. She’s a hippo rite. He’ll likely learn that, too.
4. The kid should have walked to school anyway. He needs to toughen up some and get in shape.
5. She says, “Don’t call dad. He’s on a plane.” Then SHE calls him.
6. The husband didn’t seem like he had the same ‘tude as his wife. I bet he sees this from her frequently and wishes they had already locked the doors of the plane so he could have turned off his phone.
7. The husband hopes she’s still in jail whe he gets home. He needs the rest.
8. When she said she was on the school board, the LEO could have thanked her for her service to the community (and thought “such as it is...”)
9.. I hope by now she has resigned from public service and has gone home to think about her life’s purpose and what kind of wife, mother, and citizen she should be.
I watched that exchange. It is remarkable that it has not been broadcast repeatedly to show the hypocrisy of the black activist who is seeking to generate faux outrage.
I wonder if Tommy Sotomayor has seen this?
The savages wanted dash and body cams, well they gots em!!!!!! Now all the good folks out there can finally see how many black rascist there really are!!
They will then oppose the cams since they produce real evidence.
Remember:
The nature of the evidence is irrelevant. It’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.
No. The SC NAACP president stopped in Timmonsville.
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