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He isn't in trouble. We need to dispense with that idea right from the start.
The driver has no defense. The rest might.
Well, in this day and time, we also know well what a lawyer is going to do to that poor cop. Subpoena all his traffic stop records to see how many vehicles with cracked windshields or other minor damage driven by caucasians he's pulled over in his entire career. That's just for starters.
Well, in this day and time, we also know well what a lawyer is going to do to that poor cop. Subpoena all his traffic stop records to see how many vehicles with cracked windshields or other minor damage driven by caucasians he's pulled over in his entire career. That's just for starters.
Maybe. And it will show he has pulled others over. Nothing is going to happen to the "poor cop". The charges will either stick or not. This happens daily.
Last week in Portland Maine a state trooper pulled over a van that had a cracked windshield and the passenger in the front did not have a seat belt on. When the trooper approached the van he found it contained a dozen men that could not provide ID or speak English. He suspected immigration violations so he contacted ICE since they would be able to supply a translator. It was found the occupants were illegal and for at least one it was his second time being caught.
The trooper was heard to saying that he had hit the mother lode for ICE and that is where he is in trouble and the illegal aliens may walk.
It seems that, at least according to the illegal aliens lawyer that the Trooper did not pull the van over for the cracked windshield but he did so because he was racially profiling his clients
This will of course play itself out in court and the Trooper who was doing his job will be made out to be the bad guy.
Sooo the question is will a situation like this where the cop was doing his job and ended up in trouble will other officers see this case and let suspects go that they would have otherwise stopped in order to stay out of trouble?
The double standard would be that white people would be stopped while brown people that might be in the country illegally would be let go.
Maybe. And it will show he has pulled others over. Nothing is going to happen to the "poor cop". The charges will either stick or not. This happens daily.
I will still think of his ensuing court appearances to come as being more than he should be subjected to for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe so. A reasonable approach to the maintenance of "impartial" justice no one should take issue with. However, when political expediency is driving the examination, it skews the scales.
Last week in Portland Maine a state trooper pulled over a van that had a cracked windshield and the passenger in the front did not have a seat belt on. When the trooper approached the van he found it contained a dozen men that could not provide ID or speak English. He suspected immigration violations so he contacted ICE since they would be able to supply a translator. It was found the occupants were illegal and for at least one it was his second time being caught.
The trooper was heard to saying that he had hit the mother lode for ICE and that is where he is in trouble and the illegal aliens may walk.
It seems that, at least according to the illegal aliens lawyer that the Trooper did not pull the van over for the cracked windshield but he did so because he was racially profiling his clients
This will of course play itself out in court and the Trooper who was doing his job will be made out to be the bad guy.
Sooo the question is will a situation like this where the cop was doing his job and ended up in trouble will other officers see this case and let suspects go that they would have otherwise stopped in order to stay out of trouble?
The double standard would be that white people would be stopped while brown people that might be in the country illegally would be let go.
What say you?
Why would you think the case is based on this "The trooper was heard to saying that he had hit the mother lode for ICE" and not the fact that the winshield was cracked?
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