Posted on 06/19/2022 3:58:12 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
When police detain someone, can that person assume that he is being stopped not because of his behavior but solely because of the color of his skin? Remarkably, the answer is yes—at least according to a ruling issued last week by the Washington State Supreme Court. The decision has left police and prosecutors unsure of how to proceed but certain that it will make securing criminal convictions even harder. As one officer put it to me, “It’s almost like an institutional sanctioning of ‘you only stopped me because I’m black.’”
The ruling was the result of appeals in the case of Palla Sum, who, in April 2019, was discovered, with a friend, in a parked car in an area “known for stolen vehicles” by Pierce County sheriff’s deputy Mark Rickerson. Rickerson asked Sum and his friend for their names; when he returned to his car to check them, Sum started the vehicle, “backed up quickly, and then took off.” A high-speed chase ensued, ending when Sum crashed in someone’s front yard.
Law enforcement subsequently found Sum to have a holster and, following a search of the car, a pistol. Prohibited from possessing a gun, Sum was convicted of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. On appeal, he made a number of claims, most significantly that, when the deputy asked him for his identification, he had been detained without reasonable suspicion, a warrant, or any other legal authority—an unlawful stop, in other words, meaning that the evidence obtained therein should be thrown out.
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Institutional insanity.
Yet another special right for dark skinned humans. We have an absolute racist judicial system.
I have been repeatedly Stopped while White.
Seriously the Cops in my area are forced to stop Me cause they don’t want to be seen as Racist.
(until they got mostly defunded anyway)
I used to budget 2k per year for my traffic atty, now I just use that $$ to pay for gas
Jumped and beaten while white.
I checked. It’s not the Babylon Bee.
The last time I was stopped, all the cop wanted was my license and registration. I said wait a minute, I have a White Privilege Card and he wouldn’t even look at it! What is this world coming to?? This is not the world I wanted for my kids, I tell ya’.
privilege
No, I stopped you because you have expired drive out tags, tinted windows which exceed legal tint, and you blew right thru the past two red lights. Now that you have no insurance, two outstanding bench warrants, a parole violation, and have family court warrants for child support, you are in deep trouble as a result of your failure to participate as Ala abiding citizen.
Another instance of black fragility.
If it means subsidized resettlement in Africa
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Been tried {Liberia} didn’t work.
It did work. The Radical Republicans like Thaddeus Stevens arranged for Lincoln’s assassination because they didn’t want it to go forward.
So, I guess that opens wide the door for a prosecutor to make an argument from statistics. With the right diagrams, large type, and vibrant graphics, this should make the prosecution's job much easier.
Males are disproportionally stopped. Being male should be a defense as well.
Looks like there’s a potential market for blackface kits.
How would a LEO know the color of the driver if he comes up on the driver from behind?
The instinct of Lincoln was right that blacks and whites can’t co-exist
Everyone who thinks blacks and whites can ever coexist peacefully together in the same society, please raise your hand.
How much more self-debasement and self-flagellation are whites willing to endure before they say ENOUGH!?
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