Posted on 03/13/2010 12:55:34 PM PST by RonDog
Civil rights leaders invited to protest against Torrance police profiling
A group of civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton, have been invited to stage a protest walk Sunday against what they believe is pattern of racial profiling by Torrance police. The walk will take place at 11:30 a.m. at 190th Street and Yukon Avenue in Torrance, said radio commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. That's the location where Torrance resident Robert Taylor was stopped and questioned by police on March 4, the day after a violent kidnapping and robbery of an elderly woman in the city. The woman was abducted by a black man and woman driving a white, mid-1990s Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows, police said. At the time Taylor was stopped he was driving his white 1997 Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows after picking up his 15-year-old daughter from North High School. Civil rights leaders plan to call for a "Justice Department and FBI probe of Torrance police practices" at a news conference before the walk. - Nick Green By Nick Green, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/12/2010 05:51:12 PM PST
...The woman was abducted by a black man and woman driving a white, mid-1990s Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows, police said.That's NOT "driving while black"...At the time Taylor was stopped he was driving his white 1997 Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows after picking up his 15-year-old daughter from North High School.
...it's "driving while not in a Government Motors car!"
Civil rights leaders [AL SHARPTON] invited to protest against Torrance [CALIFORNIA] police profilingI guess ole "Sharpy-Sharp" just wants to go to a "shakedown" where it's WARM outside.
From Caption Rev. Al Sharpton:
African-American leaders speak to the media after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama
and discussing the economy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, February 10, 2010.
There are very few whites left in Torrance. Profiling the majority? Is that a crime.
...A group of civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton, have been invited to stage a protest walk Sunday against what they believe is pattern of racial profiling by Torrance police.How could the Torrance cops tell what RACE the guy was...
...when they decided to pull him over......if his white T-bird had "tinted windows"?
Can we BORROW "Sherrif Joe" for the weekend?
There are very few whites left in Torrance...You might have the wrong "Torrance."
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California:
As of the census[12] of 2000, there were 137,946 people, 54,542 households, and 36,270 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,593.1/km² (6,715.7/mi²). There were 55,967 housing units at an average density of 1,052.0/km² (2,724.7/mi²).The racial makeup of the city was 59.16% White, 28.61% Asian, 4.72% from two or more races, 4.57% from other races, 2.19% Black or African American, 0.41% Native American and 0.35% Pacific Islander. 12.79% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
We don’t want to wear him out, LOL.
Nope, I got the right one, since 2000 most split.
I have been working in Torrance for the last decade, and have not seen the changes that you describe here...
...but it's a BIG city...
...Taylor, 62, who is a minister in Inglewood, said he was stopped March 4 at the wheel of his white 1997 Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows just after picking up his 15-year-old daughter from NorthHart said Taylor's car matched the description of one used the day before in the violent kidnapping of an elderly woman.
In that crime, the unidentified woman was kidnapped at what she believed to be gunpoint outside the Target store at Sepulveda and Madrona boulevards.
The unidentified woman was forced by a man and a woman to withdraw money from her bank account and remove jewelry from her home, Hart said. Stolen was $142,000 in jewelry and at least $3,500 in cash.
Involved in the incident was a black woman, described as being around 5 feet 7 inches tall and 40 to 45 years of age, and a tall, thin black man with short, shaved hair and smartly dressed in a shirt, tie and slacks, possibly in his 30
The pair drove a white, mid-1990's, Ford Thunderbird with tinted windows. That's similar to the car Taylor was driving.
The crime was the fourth in the city believed to involve the same suspects who target elderly women in so-called pigeon drop or bait-and-switch schemes since June 2009, Hart said.
Such schemes generally involve people who approach their victims with a large quantity of cash and insist they will split it if the victims put up "good faith" money of their own first, Hart said. At some point the cash is switched with worthless pieces of paper and the suspects flee with the victim's money.
But this one differed from the others in that the two suspects threatened the woman's life.
"It has escalated and become more violent," Hart said. "The latest crime these suspects committed was a robbery/kidnapping - they took the victim hostage."
But Taylor said the officers who stopped him said they did so because they believed there were several warrants out for the arrest of a Robert Taylor. That Robert Taylor had a different date of birth than his, he said.
Taylor accused the officers of lying Wednesday and questioned why they couldn't tell him the real reason he was stopped.
Hart said officers often are circumspect in such incidents.
"Police officers will routinely detain people based on information given to us," he said. "It is not uncommon when police officers are investigating cases to not alert (someone) that they may be the subject of an investigation."
But Hart said he doesn't know why the public, including especially vulnerable elderly women, weren't immediately alerted that two potentially violent criminals were on the loose in Torrance.
Hart said police were readying information about the crime to alert the public.
The Daily Breeze only learned of the crime from police late Tuesday when Taylor announced the press conference would be held the following day.
Taylor said it wasn't until he went down to the police station later on the day he was stopped that he was told about the crime that occurred the previous day.
But Taylor said that even though he and his daughter were riding in the same kind of car as the suspected black male and female robbers that still doesn't justify officers stopping him....
really? I have seen a HUGE influx of asians. They have taken over the place.
...and I don't get "out on the town" much. :o)
profiling white cars
“But Taylor said that even though he and his daughter were riding in the same kind of car as the suspected black male and female robbers that still doesn’t justify officers stopping him....”
Ummm sorry Charlie, I say it does. My husband got pulled over years ago. Seems there was felon at large driving a late model Lincoln Continental same color as the one we drove. Hubby said when he rolled down the window the officer’s face radiated relief. Hubby was too old to match the the guy they were looking for. Officer passed along the plate # on the car to dispatch as being NOT the one they were looking for.
Driving while FORD...
might not want to correct me then.
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