Crossing a double yellow line while turning is an accident. Do it while being black and you get this from state trooper...
https://www.inquirer.com/news/rodne...ng-while-black-racial-profiling-20190803.html
Came here to post this. Bullshit charge. Outrageous behavior.
The "criminals" in front of their "shack," where they were apprehended:
From the article:
Rodney and Angela Gillespie were excited when they returned July 1 to the United States, to the home they’d built in 2007 on a 2.7-acre parcel in a leafy section of upscale Chadds Ford. His job as a senior executive with AstraZeneca, the multinational pharmaceutical company, had taken them first to London for three years and then to Johannesburg for three years.
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Moments after parking on their well-lighted circular driveway, the Gillespies, both 52 and married 25 years, weren’t sure if they would live or die, they said. The source of their fear was a rookie Pennsylvania State Police trooper.
Yelling loudly and with a hand on his gun, Trooper Christoper S. Johnson, 23, reached into the vehicle to turn off the ignition, but it was already turned off.
The couple, who are African American, recalled that Johnson, who is white, shouted questions, orders, and insults in rapid succession:
How old are you? Why did you stop here? Don’t give me that s—! Get out of the car! Why are you driving a rental car? Do you have drugs? Guns? Is that your girlfriend in the car?
He eventually pulled Rodney Gillespie from the late-model SUV and handcuffed him.
Johnson — who had been on patrol only about two months, after graduating from the
Police Academy in May — reached into Gillespie’s pants pocket and removed his wallet without consent, Gillespie said.
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The Newark, N.J., native said she found it ironic that the couple had experienced no racial prejudice in South Africa or in the United Kingdom, only to return to racial profiling by police on their own street in the Philadelphia suburbs.
“To be welcomed back this way just didn’t make sense,” she said. “This is not the America we left in 2013. We’ve come back to an elevated rage.”
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The "thugs" explain their terror:
The troopers freed Gillespie from the handcuffs after about 10 minutes, after his wife was allowed to use her phone to Google his name and show the troopers his online professional biography, the couple said.
Johnson issued Gillespie a $142.50 ticket for a yellow-line infraction, which Gillespie paid July 16 at Magisterial District Court in Glen Mills, and a $102 ticket for not stopping immediately, which was dismissed.
He said it was the first time he had been handcuffed. “It’s humiliating. I talk to my kids about doing the right thing. I raised them to do the right thing, and to get cuffed in front of my 17-year-old daughter and my wife, it’s embarrassing,” said Gillespie, an Englewood, N.J., native with a degree in commerce and engineering from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
“One thing my daughter said to me that really killed me was, ‘Dad, I can’t lose you. I can’t lose you.’ My daughter should not have to say something like that to me. What she witnessed that night is etched in her mind.”
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In the Gillespies’ July 24 complaint, Stretton asked the State Police for footage of the incident but has yet to receive it.
Meanwhile, Gillespie said he’s speaking out about the traffic stop in hopes that it will lead State Police to address the couple’s concerns and to train troopers to better interact with motorists of color.
“I have a little bit of means to fight back. But imagine the person who doesn’t have the means to fight back. They don’t have a voice. I have a voice. So it’s easy for me to pay a fine and walk away and say, ‘Terribly sorry it happened.’ But it’s hard for me to just walk away from this one without holding people accountable,” he said.
“If I had a message, I would say: It doesn’t matter who you are, when they see us they make assumptions. I don’t care if you’re the CEO or you’re the street sweeper or you’re unemployed. It doesn’t make a difference.”