Posted on 12/01/2017 6:55:01 PM PST by blam
A police detective in Illinois has faced disciplinary action this week, after he was recorded on video telling a teenager he was being detained because he's white.*
Footage of the controversial encounter surfaced on Facebook on Monday, and has since gone viral with more than 85,000 views.
Dezi Baczek,18, who recorded the video, was among a group of teens who went to the local pawnshop in Lake Villa, a suburb of Chicago, to sell an item so the group could buy her brother a book that he wanted to read. How thoughtful.
When the group of millennials exited the shop, they found Detective Gomez waiting out in the parking lot for them. Immediately, the group of teens were ordered to sit down or face being arrested.
Baczek told NBC 5, I was yelled at to sit down.
When asked what for?.. That is when she started filming.
Police said the detective was conducting a theft investigation at the time and was questioning the group of teens. One unseen teen in the video questions why he's being detained he asked Gomez, Is it because I'm a teenager? Because I have baggy pants on?
Detective Gomez was seen storming off, then spun around and yelled back, because you're white."
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Offier Gomez needs some remedial training in the proper application of profiling.
He needs to be taken off the street, since he is a racist
What a racist!
Get used to more of this.
Kid was lucky he wan’t shot.
Take your wealth you want to pass on to your kids and bury it, or put in bitcoins or something.
South Africa, Zimbabwe, USA...
And hate crime charge was dropped in the famous torture suspects—now going on a year and no trial.
No libraries in Chicago?
What was the book?
LOL — I watched the video and read the articles. The cop did display poor judgement but I have to cut him some slack because, IMHO, he was dealing with some wise asses. One kid gave a phony name/ID & the group of kids at the pawnshop were accompanying a suspect in the theft of that pawnshop. Anyhow, the Chief is admonishing the cop and I suspect he’ll be more careful with his words in the future.
“The cop did display poor judgement but I have to cut him some slack because, IMHO, he was dealing with some wise asses.”
Absolutely! Miles west of Chicago,and they are still $hit kids. Must be something in the water. But the cops better get really wise to the fact that their every move is going to be recorded both picture and sound! If both sides here had shown a scintilla of respect for one another, this could have all been over in minutes. That said “probable cause” was really weak on the cop’s part.
Lake Villa is at least 50 miles north of Chicago city limits, near the Illinois-Wisconsin border.
No -it’s at Rt 83, Roosevelt to North Ave, just west of Hillside
“admonishing”???....you know darn well if a white cop said “because you’re black” that cop would be instantly booted and hunted down...
Chicago will have the Soetoro All Fiction Library soon.
I think you are confusing Villa Park with Lake Villa, which is in Lake County. This happened on Rt83 north of Grand Avenue. I actually drove by when this was happening.
Who knows? Maybe it was entitled: “ How to Catch a Racist in the Act.” 😊
Lake Villa, up north near the state line.
Not Villa Park, due west of Chicago.
You’re right - amazing how I multiple times missed that in the story.
I get em confused at times too, and I live in the area.
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