Posted on 05/21/2018 10:18:11 AM PDT by grundle
The president of a local chapter of the NAACP in South Carolina said he was racially profiled in April by a police officer when he was pulled over for a traffic violation, but body camera footage released by the Timmonsville Police Department contradicts the reverend’s claims.
“TONIGHT I WAS RACIALLY PROFILED by Timmonsville Officer CAUSE I WAS DRIVING A MERCEDES BENZ AND GOING HOME IN A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD,” Jarrod Moultrie posted on Facebook April 13.
Timmonsville Police Officer Chris Miles stopped Moultrie for not engaging his turn signal before turning, according to the officer’s body camera footage and Moultrie’s Facebook post. A South Carolina Highway state trooper assisted the officer during the stop, according to Timmonsville police.
In the Facebook post, which has been deleted, Moultrie recounted the dialogue between him and Miles.
According to Moultrie, Miles asked him if he had any drugs in the car, where he worked, who was the owner of the car and why he was in the neighborhood.
“Me: sir I am a pastor and I live in the house on the left,” the post reads. “Officer: And I guess I am the bill gates.”
The encounter between Moultrie and Miles is different than what Moultrie described, based on police body camera footage released by the Timmonsville Police Department.
In the video, Miles identifies himself with Timmonsville police and asks for Moultrie’s license, registration and proof of insurance.
As Moultrie is unfolding paperwork, the officer asks, “Now you don’t own the motor vehicle?”
“Yes, sir, I just transferred,” Moultrie replied as he hands him what appears to be a receipt for the vehicle.
The officer repeats Moultrie’s statement about transferring tags and then asks for Moultrie’s name as he hands him the registration for the previous vehicle. Then the officer asks for Moultrie’s license and tells him why he stopped him.
“The reason I’m coming in contact with you is that whenever you took that left right here, you didn’t signal. Okay. That’s the only reason I’m coming in contact with you. Okay?”
After Moultrie gives Miles his license, the officer heads back to his patrol car, the body camera footage shows.
In the patrol car, the officer checks the registration, which he tells dispatch is for a 1992 GMC Sierra.
When the officer returns to Moultrie’s car, he tells him to try to not drive the car until he has the proper registration, the body camera footage shows.
When Moultrie tells Miles he bought the car recently and switched the tags, the officer interrupts him to say he needs to go to a DMV in South Carolina to ask why the tags are still registered to the truck.
“I switched the tags from the truck to the car,” Moultrie told the officer, while gesturing to the receipt of the Mercedes.
“They told me a DMV—the dealer put that on there, that showed the tags gonna be transferred. And all I need to do is keep this registration in there and this bill that’s here.”
“They told you wrong,” the officer responded. “You’ve got to have the proper documentation in your motor vehicle that actually matches the car that you’re operating on South Carolina highways.”
The officer then hands him back his license, tells him to wear his seatbelt and drive safely, the body camera footage shows.
Based on the body camera footage, the officer never asked Moultrie if he had drugs in the car nor why he was driving in that area.
Moultrie’s account of the dialogue between him and Miles when the officer returned to the Mercedes is different than what the body camera footage shows.
“Officer: I am warning you to not drive this car til tags get straight and just know I am doing you a favor tonight not taking you to jail or writing you a ticket,” the post reads.
In the post, Moultrie says his wife was in the back seat without a seat belt and with a baby out of the car seat. He also mentioned he would follow up with Timmonsville police because “someone needs to answer for this behavior.”
Timmonsville Police Chief Billy Brown said Moultrie contacted him the day after the traffic stop to say he was racially profiled and mistreated, ABC15 News reported.
When Brown reviewed the body camera footage, he said he was shocked that the reverend would lie about the encounter.
“When I saw the video, I was shocked that someone who is supposed to be a community leader, a pastor, and head of the NAACP would just come out and tell a blatant lie,” Brown said to the news station.
“It bothered me. It really bothered me, thinking about the racial unrest it could've cost in the community and it's just troubling to me that someone who held a position like that would come out and just tell a lie."
Moultrie was elected president of the chapter, which was inactive for several years, in 2017, SC Now reported.
Moultrie said to SC Now in 2017 that many of the problems that he wanted to address--school board inadequacies, unjust city ordinances, low voter registration and the lack of police presence--in Timmonsville were rooted in electing city officials based on history, rather than credibility, and not holding elected officials accountable.
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Activist says cop sexually assaulted black woman during stop. DPS says dashcam video clears officer.
Bet liberals are regretting making cops wear body cameras now and have dashcams etc- because now their liberal friends can’t make false claims without being exposed as liars lol
Race of professional victims applying their trade.
Something is up if you get pulled over for not signaling a right turn.
The liberals will rue the day they pushed for body cams.
How many other false claims like this, which were not recorded, gave police officers a bad rep?
Keep those cameras rolling!
He didn’t signal for a left turn, I hope your comment is sarcasm instead of an attempt to muddy the conversation for those who don’t read the story.
He went to the same seminary school as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton’gue..... sarcasm off.....
A lot of cops hate those cameras.
I love them, and have told cops to enjoy them too. Keeps you out of trouble.
The only shocking thing to me about the "pastor" lying is that he thought he'd get away with the lie when the entire "incident" had been recorded. I guess he thought he'd get the narrative out there before he could be revealed as the lying POS he is.
This is what happens when you make groups of entitled assholes a protected class.
It does keep them out of trouble and it is destroying the racist black element in societies credibility. If other blacks want to retain any credibility where they are considered fair in matters of racial issues, they are going to have to condemn and demand these lying bigots are prosecuted for slander and if they cause riots or violence those crimes as well.
My son is a new officer and I have always told him while he had the uniform on consider yourself being recorded, whether it is your camera and mic or someone’s cell phone.
Something is up if you get pulled over for not signaling a right turn.
A Texas cop pulled me over for exactly that.
I once got a ticket for not stopping at a stop sign even though the traffic camera showed my break lights came on. When I pointed this out, I was told that I hadn't stopped long enough. I paid the fine since it wasn't worth my time to fight it.
Great advice
To many “old school” cops, in FR and “real” life, HATE the cameras. Says it “prevents effective policing”.
It is a tool. Use it as such.
Race hustlers having a harder time now with cameras every where.
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My recently deceased uncle was an officer, chief of police for two departments and had 30+ years of service and he was old school. We were watching an episode of COPS one day and this particular episode had a mouthy and uncooperative perp on it. I made the remark about it and my uncle said if that camera wasn’t there he would be compliant real quick.
He served in the mountains of Kentucky for most of his career, retired and went to a southern state and worked another dozen years. When he got there he was called to a Waffle House to a disturbance. Another officer was “negotiating” with a rather large black male who made sure the knew he had played in the NFL and they needed to back off.
Well they couldn’t there had been a crime committed and my uncle showed, got into the mix and found out he had been told he was under arrest. My uncle told the guy turn around and put your hands behind your back now! The black guy replied with profanity and my uncle replied with his night stick across his head sending him reeling and down to the floor at which point he cuffed him. The other officer said we don’t do things like that here! My uncle said that is the way we do things in the mountains when you are told you are under arrest, the talking is over.
I don't.
Keeps you out of trouble.
Maybe. Maybe not. It sure can't hurt when the cops get to decided what gets release and when.
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