Holder tells Ferguson students he was a victim of racial profiling

The Hill ^ | August 20, 2014 | Alexander Bolton

[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.

[Junior_G]

“Why I Hate White People”, by Eric Holder

[maggief]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/30/as-college-sophomore-eric-holder-participated-in-armed-takeover-of-former-columbia-university-rotc-office/

As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office

EXCERPT

Holder was then among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood.”

Black radicals from the same group also occupied the office of Dean of Freshman Henry Coleman until their demands were met. Holder has publicly acknowledged being a part of that action.

The details of the student-led occupation, including the claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web page of the Black Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group to the SAAS. Contemporary newspaper accounts in The Columbia Daily Spectator, a student newspaper, did not mention weapons.

[Mears]

I just finished “Obama’s Enforcer” by John Fund.

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Holder is one nasty piece of work.

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[bgill]

“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,"

That statement makes no sense.

[Carriage Hill]

SNORT!

[DainBramage]

HOLDER IS NEAR!

[Texan5]

Holder is a blatant bigot-is there any info out there proving his alleged experiences of being profiled are true? I’d be willing to bet it is made up, and I’d pay real money to see him caught in that lie...

My cousin’s husband is a black/Hispanic guy from Puerto Rico, and he is more black than Holder-so are their kids. Holder is posing as black since the election-he didn’t do that before then.

[silverleaf]

Hey, I was once in a car that was stopped and searched!!
Where my profiling victim badge?

[Amagi]

America is the victim of Holder having benefited from Affirmative Action racial profiling.

[sodpoodle]

****the possibility that the cop might be innocent*****.

Innocent unless and until proven guilty in a Court of Law.

However, the US is no longer a Nation of Laws, but of political correctness and bias.

[Carriage Hill]

“I’ve had such a dull life. :-)”

Me too. Never won a lottery or been profiled.

[VRW Conspirator]

... investigation of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager Repeat the meme, repeat the meme...

Can they ever use the words "deranged", "crazed" or "aggressive".

[Carriage Hill]

THAT is priceless!

[NEMDF]

UMMMM best practices: stay in school, stay out of gangs, get a job, wear pants that fit, don’t shoplift, don’t beat up police officers, don’t be out wandering the streets after dark, don’t become addicted to drugs or alcohol, go to church, don’t have children unless you are married; stay married and raise your children to work hard, do well in school, show respect for authority...etc., etc. I wonder if anyone suggested similar hints as “best practices”.

[El Cid]

Sounds like the profiling was correct. Even though he was a young whippersnapper, the copper knew that the looked like a skeevy character, and that there was something just not right with the lad. Very prescient.

[okie01]

“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,"

Be we black, white, brown or green, who among us has NOT been pulled over without apparent reason? At least once, if not twice?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

FUEH!

[dandiegirl]

Make sure he keeps reminding all the ignorant blacks how horrible whites are. That way, it never goes away and they feel justified for committing crimes against whites. Great leadership there Holder.

[Shimmer1]

I understand, Holder. My son was stopped for no reason and his car searched, drug dog called, the whole thing. That would be my white son. I guess it would be more serious, more heinous, if you’re black, OR you’re just hyper-sensitive.
Humiliated. BS.

[mulligan]

Holder is pure trash.