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Dorothy Bland:I was caught walking while black.Police chief:No, officers were doing their jobs
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 29 October 2015 10:52 AM | DOROTHY BLAND

Posted on 10/29/2015 3:19:16 PM PDT by slumber1

Flashing lights and sirens from a police vehicle interrupted a routine Saturday morning walk in my golf-course community in Corinth.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuse; flapflapflap; ithinkicanfly; police; profiling; racial; thugculture
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Watch the video and you decide. Was this racial profiling or were the officers acting in a courteous and professional manner?
1 posted on 10/29/2015 3:19:16 PM PDT by slumber1
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To: slumber1

No thank you.

I’m weary of the whole “race” thing.

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2 posted on 10/29/2015 3:24:30 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

She must have a huge chip on her shoulder.


3 posted on 10/29/2015 3:25:36 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: slumber1

As for the I.D. question, how many Americans typically carry I.D. with them on their morning walk?

I do, I have an old drivers lic that has my address and on back my wifes cell phone number, it is dumb to go out with no id


4 posted on 10/29/2015 3:27:01 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Jolla

Amen.

What if the pickup truck had hit her hard enough that she could not run her otherwise over active mouth?

Contacting her family would have been delayed.


5 posted on 10/29/2015 3:29:29 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Dalberg-Acton

She needs to try thinking while black.


6 posted on 10/29/2015 3:31:42 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: slumber1

Whining by blacks and liberals about race has become nothing more than background white noise.

Like the far off drone of tires on the highway.

And that is too bad because it drowns out the occasional, but increasingly rare, legitimate problem.


7 posted on 10/29/2015 3:31:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Jolla

If I walk, I carry ID. What if I got hit by a car?


8 posted on 10/29/2015 3:32:27 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: slumber1

The thoughts hit me in this order:
1. She looks like she is exercising.
2. Why is she not on the sidewalk?
3. Why is she walking towards the middle of the road.
4. If she insists on walking in the road, she is walking on the wrong side of the road.


9 posted on 10/29/2015 3:33:30 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Pull up your Big Girl pants, Dot, and get on with it like the rest of us.
I’m sick of the `Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, I’m Black’ Pity Parties.


10 posted on 10/29/2015 3:34:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: cuban leaf

She may be stupid, but she shouldn’t be harassed by cops in her own neighborhood.


11 posted on 10/29/2015 3:34:48 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: Jolla
As for the I.D. question, how many Americans typically carry I.D. with them on their morning walk?

I do. Every time I take the dog for a walk, I pick up my wallet.

My iPhone also has the Medical ID feature that is accessible from Emergency Call screen.

It has information about me, and my wife, daughter, and doctor can all be called directly without unlocking the phone.

12 posted on 10/29/2015 3:35:18 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: Jolla

I never went out with no ID when I lived in Seattle. Where I live now I DRIVE without id. But only when I’m in my local community, which never sees a cop car, and rarely sees any other car. Heck, it’s a mile to my barn.


13 posted on 10/29/2015 3:35:52 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf
4. If she insists on walking in the road, she is walking on the wrong side of the road.

If you must walk on the road, always walk against the traffic. You'll see the approaching traffic, and can jump out of the way if they don't see you.

14 posted on 10/29/2015 3:36:22 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: slumber1

I’m confused as to why the stop took so long. It ended before they asked for ID. At least, it should have.


15 posted on 10/29/2015 3:36:37 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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I thought that the cops were fine. Is she really only 5’4? If so, the cops are rather short.


16 posted on 10/29/2015 3:37:33 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: slumber1

Easy call. Walking while being self aborbed with one’s own importance.


17 posted on 10/29/2015 3:37:40 PM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: petercooper

So you consider what happened here was harassment?


18 posted on 10/29/2015 3:37:50 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: justlurking

“My iPhone also has the Medical ID feature that is accessible from Emergency Call screen.”

Is that a feature of your phone or is that an app?

Thanks


19 posted on 10/29/2015 3:38:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. It is my personal view that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She should have tried running...while carrying a big-screen TV.


20 posted on 10/29/2015 3:39:04 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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