Posted on 01/19/2023 1:39:36 PM PST by grundle
Over the past eight years, this man has not been left alone.
A Black Massachusetts man is suing the Worcester Police Department for racial profiling after allegedly pulling him over more than 70 times in just the past eight years, per GBH News. He’s still fighting charges from one of his previous police interactions.
T.J. Juty says he has been suspected of stealing cars and selling drugs before even being apprehended with a warrant. The report says he was pulled over in 2021 for not updating his new car color on his registration. By law, he wasn’t required to, but instead Juty was charged with disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer after an intense exchange. Worcester hasn’t implemented a strict body camera policy. Luckily, Juty recorded the stop to present as evidence.
“I feel like every single time, even if I’m not driving, and I make eye contact or an officer sees my dreads or he sees I’m Black, they’re going to come after me. I just know whenever they’re coming now, I just have my phone ready to record,” Juty told GBH.
Massachusetts has long been suspected of discriminating against Black and Hispanic drivers. Just last year, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into claims of excessive force and racially biased policing.
Many of those claims were documented by Joseph Hennessey, Juty’s attorney.
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Maybe it’s because he was flagrantly violating traffic laws 70 times? I’m no pleader for Massachusetts, not by a long shot, but such people do exist. Especially in locales where there’s absolute impunity for serial violators. I wouldn’t be surprised if Massachusetts is such a locale.
“It sounds like Worcester has a problem.
Worcester has lots of problems.”
One problem is that they talk funny. They call that town “Woo-ster”. It looks like “war-chester” to me. I’m not sure how they get “Woo-ster” out of that combination of letters...
Maybe this black guy kept on saying “war-chester” and the woo-sterians got bent out of shape?
“See, when you want to see REAL racism you don’t go to the South, nope, you go look for Northern Democrats.“
Absolutely true.
“See, when you want to see REAL racism you don’t go to the South, nope, you go look for Northern Democrats.”
That’s exactly right. I remember the northern school integration even though I was pretty much a kid. I was surprised by the reaction because, despite what the 1619 Project says, I was taught in the south that we were the racists. Biden is a perfect example of a real, old time racist, as much or more than I’ve ever seen in the south. People don’t see it, though.
“Gotta remember that liberal jurisdictions are the most racist.”
Case in point: Martha’s Vineyard.
My thoughts exactly
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Martha’s Vineyard is not racist .
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That’s funny.
I live in St. Louis, where they rarely enforce any traffic laws, so I would think 70 times in 8 years is just a bit excessive.
I used to work for a company in South Carolina that eventually got bought out by a New York company. They came down telling us in meetings how racist we are. When I went to New York for some meetings, I was shocked how racist the people were up there.
I’m calling official B.S. on this guy. Sorry, but the cops just don’t pull over innocent people on a monthly basis. You know there has to be more to the story, and “The Root” certainly won’t tell us.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Wuh-stir is the best way to pronounce it. For true Central Massachusetts folks, it is Wuh-staaaaa.Aug 14, 2016
I would bet you would love pronouncing:
Gloucester
Leicester
:-)
Dick Gregory famously said that in the north, they don’t care about how big you get as long as you don’t get too close. In the south, they don’t care about how close you get as long as you don’t get too big.
It depends how important fines for various trifling traffic offenses are to the city treasury. There are numbers of (albeit mostly small) towns and cities that derive a significant part of their operating revenues from fines and collateral remissions from traffic citations. Here in the swamp state the fine city of Washington, Louisiana is particularly notorious for this practice as are a number of towns west of Lake Charles who have annexed a small sliver of parish land that interstate runs so their LEOs can pull motorists over for such offenses as lane change without a signal or most popular ‘following too closely’.
They are not showing his car. I am guessing one look at his car would tell you why he is always getting pulled over.
"Uhhh, no. With tinting like this on your windows no one can see you. But we clocked you at 65 in a school zone."
"Like I said, you pulled me over because I'm black."
Whatever, I have been stopped at least that many times.
Even once on a bicycle for “speeding”
once with the cops drawing down on me cause my tabs were expired.
Luckily none in the last few years.
Where I lived once the cops would harass anyone with a car older than 6 years.
One of them pulled over Bill Gates and gave him a ticket for not having proof of financial responsibility.
(the ticket was eventually dismissed, and the cop was fired soon after.)
You’re exactly right. I lived in communist Massachusetts for about 15 years and they love to cast dispersions on the South like the Democrats like to cast dispersions on Republicans. They are far more racists and wannabe fascists there than in Georgia/Tennessee where I grew up and now live again.
Boston is still fairly well racially segregated and surrounding suburbs too. In the 70’s they were the most racially segregated city in the USA. You just took your safety in your own hands going into some neighborhoods after dark if you weren’t the right ethnicity, be it Italian, Portuguese, Black, etc.
I know a few black people in MA as friends and they come to visit and are afraid because of the hype they’ve been raised with in lying Massachusetts’ culture about Georgia and Tennessee.
I tell them to relax, this is the birthplace of civil rights and you’ll be more at home here than in most places in Massachusetts. Half our neighbors are minorities and we all thrive like good neighbors should. Enjoy the hospitality.
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