Holder's right ... he got racially profiled through Columbia University Law School ... out of the public defenders job for which he's barely qualified ... and into a gig as Attorney General.
Posted on 08/20/2014 1:49:46 PM PDT by maggief
FERUGUSON, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday told a group of black college students here that he had been a victim of racial profiling.
Holder, who is in Ferguson as part of the Justice Department’s investigation of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, relayed a story about being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike despite not breaking any laws.
“He told the story about how he was humiliated. They got him out of his car and searched his car,” said Bradley J. Reyford, a 22-year-old student who met with Holder. Holder told the story to a group of students at Florissant Valley Community College, a predominantly black school.
He met with a small group of students to hear their concerns about policing tactics in Ferguson, where riots and looting have broken out over the past week along with protests and demonstrations related to the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The attorney general wanted to “get a general idea of how police departments treat the community,” Reyford said
Holder said President Obama is keenly interested in how majority white police departments in communities such as Ferguson treat black youths, especially those from poor areas.
"He said the president wants to know what students are feeling about the police departments in the area," Reyford told reporters after the meeting.
Police and witnesses have given differing stories of how Brown was killed, with some witnesses saying Brown had his hands up when he was shot and police sources saying he had charged a police officer with his hands at his side.
An autopsy report found Brown had been shot at least six times. Police officer Darren Wilson has been identified as the shooter.
Holder recounted what he described as his humiliating experience of getting pulled over by state troopers on the New Jersey Turnpike despite not violating any laws.
Holder told a similar story to the NAACP last year after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida.
“I was pulled over twice and my car was searched on the New Jersey Turnpike when I’m sure I wasn’t speeding, or when I was stopped by a police officer," he told the group last year.
Holder has also recounted being stopped by a police officer while running to catch a movie in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington when he was a federal prosecutor.
Holder in the past has also spoken about his father coaching him on how to speak to police officers to avoid harassment.
The students told Holder that police are more likely to pull over a young black driver behind the wheel of a tricked-out car than someone driving a Mercedes-Benz.
He also heard from Molyric Welch, 27, whose brother died after Ferguson police shocked him with a taser in 2011.
Holder met separately with about 60 leaders from Ferguson and the surrounding communities, including Patrick Green, the mayor of Normandy.
“These young African-Americans want to know absolutely that not just I'm being heard but it's being taken serious through some action plan,” said Green. “We're going to implement the best practices. That's what DOJ is looking at. What are the best practices around the country that are working.”
Green called the meeting “very effective.”
He said they walked away from it with a “guaranteed commitment” that local communities would put in place guidelines to strengthen relationships between residents and local police departments.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles did not attend the session, according to Green.
I know some people who have been racially profiles by affirmative action.
Holder's right ... he got racially profiled through Columbia University Law School ... out of the public defenders job for which he's barely qualified ... and into a gig as Attorney General.
Yes, I know that happens, but how is that applicable to this situation? Big Mike and friend were walking down the middle of the street when they were stopped. No big deal, right? Well, my hometown has changed to majority black. There are still some of the old-timers there, whom I have known since childhood, who can’t move out because they can’t get enough for their houses to buy another house somewhere else. Or, they can’t even get a buyer for their houses because what was once a nice, blue-collar neighborhood, has turned into a wasteland of burned-out and abandoned houses. They talk about the black kids walking down the street and blocking it, and they see it as intimidation. But they’re just old white crackahs, so what does it matter?
First off, can he prove that he was racially profiled?
I've been pulled over for doing nothing wrong and had my car searched. Granted it is irritating for sure. But unless they were profiling white dudes that day I can't say I was racially profiled or profiled for any reason for that matter.
Holder is nothing more than a jerk and race baiter with a chip on his shoulder.
LOL, Holder... where is my tiny violin ?
i was profiled as a cigarette smuggler at the canadian border and had my car searched, along with my parent’s luggage.
it’s just part of life.
I guess i should have become outraged, grabbed for the border guard’s pistol, and rioted in the village of Magog.
I got profiled when I was in Colorado because I had MN license plates! Cops told me they thought it was odd I was going through their small town.
There fixed it for you Mr. Robinson
How about leftist scumbag nutcase profiling? The American people obviously performed that task poorly.
Whats the beef here??? Arent you SUPPOSED to profile criminals???
Cry me a river! Next thing, they will be telling us that someone is more likely to get hired if they go to a job interview wearing respectable business attire than with saggy pants displaying their butt crack.
We need to outlaw that type of profiling as well!
Jun 28, 2012 - The House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast & Furious.
Holder should have been removed from office two years ago.
The perception of police brutality has been a huge bugaboo for generations among the black nationalists, Black Panthers, and NOI. That doesn’t make it real, or unjustified in the case of Michael Brown, because most of the time the police are just doing their job.
But police brutality is a big part of the mythology they are taught to accept, along with the unfairness of the “white man’s law” when they think they should get a pass on everything because they are black.
Remember, Holder also wants to review a bunch of prison cases because they had white juries or something.
Like they say: it’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.
“i was profiled as a cigarette smuggler at the canadian border and had my car searched, along with my parent’s luggage.”
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Cool !
I’ve had such a dull life. :-)
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Has that been verified, or might it be like so many of those personal anecdotes told by Slick Willie, Hillary, Obama and most any Dim in an attempt to relate to their audiences in the most personal way possible?
And, so what, I've been stopped for no reason other than having an out-of-state tag in a state 1,200 miles from home. Ran all sorts of checks on me, then let me ago after about twenty minutes.
Did you tell him/her that were escaping the cold weather and were seeking a warmer climate? LOL
Probably.
And back in the day the NJ Troopers did a he# of a job of drug interdiction along the “cocaine corridor”...using “profiling”.
The Clinton’s made me carry their bags!
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