It's hard to imagine that anyone could come up with any kind of
justification for such an incident. Just to point out though, the River
Road isn't usually considered a high-crime area, so this can't be
attributed to CODEFOR.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft
At 05:09 PM 3/15/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In response to Steven Froemming's question about whether racial profiling
>is a problem in this city, let me tell you about a experience that my
>husband had last year.
>
>After visiting me in the U of M hospital while I was recovering from a
>stroke, he was returning home late one night along East River Road. When he
>stopped for the lights at Franklin, he noticed a police car coming the
>opposite direction that was also stopped for the light. After the light
>changed, the police officer did a U-turn in the intersection and proceeded
>to follow him all the way to our house. Not until my husband pulled into
>our garage did the officer put on his lights and ask to see his license.
>Despite the fact that my husband knew the cop was right behind him and was
>carefully watching his speed, the cop told him that "he was going a little
>fast", although he couldn't quantify it. He then asked my husband to take a
>breathalyzer test, despite having no basis. Since they were at the end of a
>deadend street with no one around, my husband cooperated, took the test,
>and of course, passed it.
>
>This incident couldn't have come at a worse time, as he was already
>stressed out due to my stroke. By the next day though, he had dismissed it
>as just another case of DWB (driving while black)...this wasn't the first
>time he had been stopped in the 20 years that we have lived in this
>predominantly white neighborhood. However, he didn't notice that the cop
>had failed to return his driver's license that evening until he received it
>in the mail a week later. Keeping that license was nothing but additional
>harassment by the cop...if it had been an honest mistake, he could have
>returned it the next day.
>
>Nancy Alcorn
>Prospect Park
>
>
>Original note:
>
>Hello my Name is Steven Froemming I want to introduce my self and give you
>a
>little back ground on who I am and then I have a question for you. I am a
>21
>year old black college student at Minneapolis Community and Tech College in
>downtown Minneapolis. I have been involved in many different campaigns in
>my
>young life. I am deeply informed on all of the issues that come up.
> The reason that I am writing today is to find out what your thoughts of
>racial profiling in the city of Minneapolis. Do you think that it is
>happing? If it is what types of things can we do to curve it? How can we
>get
>it thorough to the cops heads that they should't just pull people over
>people that are black. I noticed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune there was
>a
>huge article in there about traffic tickets and that was after some one did
>a study on police and race studied in the city of Minneapolis. The article
>that I am referring to is "Traffic Tickets decline after police-race
>study."
>PAge b1 front page of the Metro section on the Wednesday march 14 2001.
>Thanks for your time and I hope to find out what you think about this
>issue.
>
>DO you think that racial profiling is a problem in the city of Minneapolis
>and If so what can we do to stop it? Please let me know what you think.
>
>Steven Froemming
>Windom
>63A 11-6
>
>
>
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