Oh yeah, they have cards.
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Let’s hope it’s a bulletproof defense
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The moment he gives her his “explanation” she smiles, like “OK . . . I know . . . this again.”
From the sound of his voice he knows he’s full of shit too.
It’s like he’s saying being innocent of any crimes is “suspicious.”
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[clears throat]
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I love the look on her face when he says that. You can just see her thinking “Mmm-hmmm. Yeah, it’s the WINDOWS that were dark.”
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The saddest part is that maybe they didn’t know what they were doing.
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Is this appropriate?
Should start at 1:38
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The registration and licensing system I had access to in the 1990s logged every query with a user name. Maybe you could get around it with a root password and an sql client, but otherwise everything is recorded.
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Minor correction: Ms. Ayala is the State Attorney (Prosecutor) for the Ninth Judicial Circuity, not Attorney General. As such, she serves Orange and Osceola counties in Central Florida.
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The logging system, like dash and personal recorders, has a bad tendency to be down at inconvenient times.
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But wait, Ann Coulter has insisted that racism no longer exists in America! How could this happen?
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She will prob get driven out of office for making them look bad. republican state, after all.
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If all that concerned people did was wish/hope/complain until somebody else in an authoritarian hierarchy addressed the issue - probably not much of anything. But that would be rather defeatist and ineffective.
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oddly, the thing that MOST concerns me, and is not mentioned in our comments?
What if she was NOT states atty?
how would she have been treated them???
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cops DO randomly run plates all the time, but I don’t think that’s what happened here. The whole “it came back blank” or whatever sounds like a total dodge. But I was in an all-white-person-populated car that got pulled over when the plate was registered to a different make of automobile (my dip friend put a random plate–god knows where he got it–on his car since he didn’t have his registered. he went to jail that night.)
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Other things not mentioned:
“sky is blue”
“water is wet”
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Im thinking that at a minimum those cops names will go down in her book with a black mark by them. They will never be forgotten and if an opportunity presents itself then she will step on them hard.
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It is more likely than not that the states attorney would have a confidential license plate.
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I have to say, as much as I’m concerned about police-state tactics and general racism by police force, this seems pretty innocuous. We have the police randomly running license plates for warrants and what-not, which I do not have an issue with in general. He says right off the bat without hesitation that they ran her plates and came back with a “nothing”, meaning a no-result search, which could indicate false plates/auto-theft, computer error or perhaps just user error. If they were truthful in that statement, they were justified in pulling her over.
Where it gets a little weird is when he talks about window-tint. That could be chalked up to (what sounds like) a junior patrolman a bit freaked out that he pulled over a state’s attorney. Might also be construed as a knee-jerk reaction for a police force that routinely pulls over people for no reason and has a back-pocket excuse. Now that I’m writing this out, I can see there may be more of an issue here. I still, however, don’t think we can absolutely say they pulled her over for the crime of Driving While Black.
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