Skirmishes in the Drug War
“There’s no other way to explain pulling the same person over three different times in three different vehicles other than profiling,” complained Kyette Peele to the Henderson, N.C., City Council. Peele said he was “not doing anything wrong” when he got pulled over by the cops, and that the city police should be punished for racial profiling. He said the fact that the same officers who pulled him over had seized 15.7 pounds of marijuana from the car he was driving on the first occasion, resulting in several felony charges, was beside the point since he was “innocent until proven guilty.” An indignant Peele demanded to know, “At what point does it stop?\" (Henderson Dispatch) ...It’s just a guess, but I’ll bet it will stop the moment he goes to prison.
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