There I was ... minding my own business ...
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.
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There I was ... minding my own business ...
No one in power gives even a moment’s thought to the possibility that the cop might be innocent. That he is being unjustly accused by almost everyone, including his entire chain of command.
Holder should start paying his Black Panther Membership again ,because his 15 minutes is almost up
Eric Holder is a racist-no question in my mind.
Correction: He played a victim and fits the profile of a racist
Boo- hoo. We taxpayers financed another worthless trip so he could join in a pity party.
And he’s had a deep-seated hatred for white people ever since.
UGH, these libs and their victim mentality.
Sheesh, I WAS a victim of profiling at the airport. Once had to go through an additional search to board. How much can I sue for, or should I have just strongarm robbed the airport store for some smokes.
Rush Limbaugh has more black blood in him than Eric Holder does. Racial profiling indeed. What, someone mistook him for a white guy?
True dat. At least the TSA has fixed that. They're far more likely to search an old lady or crippled vet in a wheelchair than a group of bearded Arabs reciting the Koran in Arabic at the airport. /S
Ever since? I bet he was fed this hatred like mother's milk. That's the usual reason the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Maybe you were weaving, or going 20mph under the speed limit, or distracted. I'm SURE you of all people would never drive 1 single mph over the speed limit. Bottom line, of course he was speeding.
Not so much racial profiling as drug profiling. He was traveling in the “corridor” with all the indications of being a runner.
He is a victim of racial profiling...that is how he got where he is.
Quite correct – because he was a high profile black goom’ba of the Pres_ent, he was eminently qualified for the AG position…
He’s nothing but a rabble rouser, and I don’t mean Duane Eddy.
It was black leadership that profiled Holder as “too white.” He reversed course and has been headlong toward black racism ever since. He hates whitey because he is too white. This self loathing is at the core of the liberal mind.
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