http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/14/1421036/-Owning-a-BMW-while-black-more-proof-of-NYPD-racism?detail=email
I love BMWs, I believe they are the best car for your money. So seems to think NY banker Kamilah Brock. But there is a difference, she is black.
Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn't Believe BMW Was Hers
NEW YORK -- Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn't believe a black woman owned a BMW.
In her first on-camera interview about her ordeal, which aired Thursday, the 32-year-old told PIX11 that it was all a "nightmare."
The excuse the cops used to detain her is pathetic. I should have been given 100 tickets if the law was applied without racial prejudice.
The suit details how Brock pulled up to a traffic light in Harlem on Sept. 12, 2014, the music on her car stereo playing loudly. An NYPD officer approached her and asked why she was driving without her hands on the steering wheel, according to the suit.
It is not just the NYPD, obviously the psych ward personnel needs to be retrained;
Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she could be released: that she owned the BMW, that she was a professional banker, and that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.
The lawsuit says it was these three assertions that were the basis for the city determining that Brock was delusional and to diagnose her with bipolar disorder.
i've seen that happen and had it happen to me we are either perceived as drug dealers or thieves when driving a nice car while being Black it is opportunity to harass.
it's possible someone might be what they want them to be when stopped but not the overwhelming majority of us that work hard and do all the things the republicans say we need to to to get ahead and still they treat us as they always have more republican myths. it is what it is no amount of denial will make it not so.
