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Holder tells Ferguson students he was a victim of racial profiling
The Hill ^ | August 20, 2014 | Alexander Bolton

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; ericholder; ferguson; michaelbrown; whiner
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To: maggief

So that’s what this is about.

Him.


81 posted on 08/20/2014 3:39:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: maggief

Holder’s involvement will have one objective and that is to alter the facts. This will come back to bite him in his corrupt and racist ass like it did trying to convict Zimmerman by altering the facts. There is good and evil and I’m certain that good will prevail this time as well.


82 posted on 08/20/2014 3:39:28 PM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: maggief

Obama’s High Yellar said that, hunh?


83 posted on 08/20/2014 3:50:27 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: maggief

What did he do, drive through Bill Clinton’s Arkansas?

I’m sorry, nobody is supposed to talk about Bill Clinton getting sued for ordering his Arkansas state troopers to RACIAL PROFILE!

Nobody is supposed to talk about Bill Clinton getting sued for VOTER DISENFANCHISMENT either.

That’s right Bill Clinton didn’t like PEOPLE OF COLOR driving through his state and he didn’t like BLACK FOLK voting the way they wanted to.

We can’t talk about it because we got to keep the lie going that it’s those racist republicans that racial profile and deny the black man the vote.


84 posted on 08/20/2014 4:09:39 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: maggief

Driving home from college on spring break, I along with another white guy and an asian dude were stopped on the freeway. We asked why, and cop mumbled something about bald tires...The tires were fine and we went on our way.

To this day I have flashbacks and can sleep...


85 posted on 08/20/2014 4:15:12 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: maggief

“Holder tells Ferguson students he was a victim of racial profiling”

Doesnt appear to have ruined his life, so BFD.


86 posted on 08/20/2014 4:16:54 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: maggief

When Holder stands sideways, I think he’s not in the right job. There are a lot of truffles over in France that need “digging up,” and he has the profile that fits the bill.


87 posted on 08/20/2014 4:35:25 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: maggief

So?


88 posted on 08/20/2014 4:38:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: carriage_hill

If the setup goes forward, every Police Officer in Missouri and their Assoc. Should call a press conference, call the actions what they are. Then go on to say that given the distrust and hatred fomented by the Governor, Attorney General and the President we suggest The law abiding Citizens immediately arm themselves and take what other precautions needed because as of 8 am tomorrow Morning we will not report to Work. Let those that can only find fault with us step up to the plate and walk a beat, take a beating, get shot at all while being spat on by the Chief Law Endorsement Officer in this Country, The A.G. and the Governor and the public.

Then watch how fast either mayhem takes over or they suddenly do the political crab walk..


89 posted on 08/20/2014 4:59:09 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: txrefugee

Boo- hoo. We taxpayers financed another worthless trip so he could join in a pity party
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I thought Holder was there to insure the WHITE COP didn’t get his Civil Rights violated since the Gov has all but declared him guilty and the Ebony Panthers are screaming for his execution - and apparently they don’t want to wait for the courts.


90 posted on 08/20/2014 5:07:55 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)a GUN is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one-probably never need one again.)
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To: MNDude

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.
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Go to ANY Waffle House in the South and if you are in an out of state vehicle you can find out in a hurry who and how many cops are on duty that evening.

And that is for US Whites.....

Guess the Blacks have better sense than to pull that stunt.<: <: <:


91 posted on 08/20/2014 5:11:53 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)a GUN is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one-probably never need one again.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Kill Whitey.

92 posted on 08/20/2014 5:23:22 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: VRWCarea51

A lot of states should do that, and the JBTs would see how quickly they’d be overwhelmed if the FedGov dumbasses had any intentions of taking over local law enforcement. Citizen Militias could easily handle it, and ‘justice’ for rioters/looters would be swift and final. Good plan.


93 posted on 08/20/2014 5:56:15 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: carriage_hill

holder is an affirmative-action loser who is extremely lucky he isn’t a washroom attendent.


94 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:55 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: ogen hal

I’d water a tree or boulder before I’d go into a loo with Holdout as ‘attendant’. He’s a traitor (marxist, socialist, liar, racist etc) who should be duly-charged, arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned/executed.

0bummer, Wookie, Jarrett etc are all AA losers.


95 posted on 08/20/2014 7:56:28 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: maggief

That steady drip, drip, drip from Washington is not water.
It’s gasoline.


96 posted on 08/21/2014 8:20:57 AM PDT by servo1969
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