So, you would be cool if some white coon ass committed a crime the police stopping every white person and questioning them? Going through your car wasting your time? Violating your rights? It's lazy police work.
Yes, I already said it was vintage Trump. And yet they each had their own pardoning hallmarks. Somebody was eventually going to be the "earliest" and so it's Trump. Is that defacto bad or good? I don't know. That's how he always does shit.....fast. He got elected in part, by telling people what he planned to do. His entire illegal immigration stance was well known. The wall isn't going to happen over night. This was an easy win. Why? What is the point of a Presidential pardon then? "W waited 3 1/2 years....Obama waited 2 years". Sooooo..... I don't know what the pardon process is. I don't suppose Obama just pulled 330 random names out of a convicted drug dealer hat on his last day. People probably ask and I am certain Arpaio did just that. It suited Trump's agenda on illegal immigration. I am not defending it, I am saying it's political. I have not defended Arpaio. Not once. I haven't excused him, ignored him, or explained him. I have stuck to the facts. The fact is he was held in contempt. He was not charged with or convicted of what happened to prisoners on his watch. If authorities want to go that way, I'm all for it.
If a white male 5'8" to 5'11" 140 to 175 pounds with a mullet and wearing a Roll Tide T shirt committed a crime then the police should stop all those who fit the description with allowances made for the fact that people can easily change shirts and that witnesses are notoriously inaccurate.
Hardly a controlled study but I got pulled over once late on a Friday in a sketchy part of town. I got pulled over. The cop asked me where I lived, what I was doing there, and to give very specific detailed directions on how I'd arrived there. He told me that, as a white woman, there were only two reasons for me to be there.....I was either drunk or trying to buy drugs. Neither was correct but I didn't get upset. I'll go back to San Bernardino. If we'd done a better job profiling certain muslims, that couple would never have been able to kill 14 co-workers.
I have little issue with using characteristics to focus investigations. I'm often amazed and disgusted when I see a little old lady (no matter what race) pulled aside for extra search by TSA. I understand selection for dress, attitude sex race etcetera to fit a specific instance is good sense. However pulling people over for driving while black, or blonde in vball's case doesn't do anything but piss people off and reduce the effectiveness of the necessary focus.
My wife, 60 years young, was selected for an exhaustive search when she had 1/2 a chocolate in her purse.
Same thing happened to me here. I cut through the ghetto to get to a certain highway because it's shorter and I was pulled over. Cops asked me what I was doing, I said driving my car to store. He said you have Texas plates in a bad neighborhood, you're either a supplier or a user. I said no, I'm neither, I'm from here and everyone knows the quickest way to 28 from Donahue Ferry is to cut through Pelican Drive. Can we search your vehicle? Nope. They called the dogs, didn't find shit and it really pisssd me off. They wasted an hour of my time because they were profiling. Again it's lazy ass police work.
But you are a drug user so their profiling was correct. You just didn't happen to have any pot with you at the time.
