Thursday, October 9, 2014

Police stops in D.C. to be debated at town hall meeting


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/police-stops-in-dc-to-be-debated-at-town-hall-meeting/2014/10/07/ff0bc842-4aff-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?tid=ptv_rellink
A Washington Metro Police car.
The District police officers were responding to a burglar alarm in an upscale neighborhood in Northwest Washington when they spotted Dennis Stucky leaning against a brick wall in Foxhall Crescent, dressed in work clothes and a ball cap and holding two bags.
Although the alarm was sounding in an adjacent subdivision — three-quarters of a mile away by car — one of the officers ordered the 64-year-old man to sit on the curb while she put on disposable gloves and prepared to search him.
Jody Westby, a resident and lawyer, rushed to Stucky’s defense, angrily telling the officers that Stucky had been a neighborhood fix-it man for 30 years and that they were not at the right house. The officers reluctantly freed Stucky, who lives in Southeast and said he feels he was stopped “because I’m black.” Westby’s housekeeper recorded much of the encounter on video.
as author noted had this been a different scenario much like the more recent ones when she approached the car arms folded hands not in sight lead would have known, when she first intervened there would have been a take down at least.  the cop in the car did not answer her i think he may not have been used to a White women in a prominent neighborhood defending a Black man they profiled being Black themselves they know who to harass and who not to, they can be as malicious as their White counterparts.
had she not been who she was they would have not granted her free movement, i live here i've worked in those neighborhoods never had a problem the 36 years i did in house major appliance tech with plenty of tools. when it comes to some Black police they are equal opportunity brutalizers, i've seen it and almost was a statistic of it.  God Bless mrs. Westby and all Americans like her