Posted on 07/15/2016 9:17:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Wednesday night, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took to the Senate Floor to discuss his interactions with law enforcement. The conservative Republican said that the cops have stopped him several times in a year. In one instance, Capitol Police forced him to produce identification, despite wearing the official pin only given to members of the U.S. Senate. He said that he felt the pressure from the “scales of justice” when it's slanted, though that is not an excuse to attack and kill police officers (via Associated Press):
0:02 / 16:27 Senator Scott Shares Personal Experiences with Law Enforcement Officers as Black Man on Senate Floor
"I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like you're being targeted for nothing more than just being yourself," Scott said in a powerful floor speech reflecting upon the killings of police and by police that have shaken the nation.
He implored colleagues to "recognize that just because you do not feel the pain, the anguish of another ... does not mean it does not exist."
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Scott talked about getting pulled over seven times in one year, and described an occasion when a police officer trailed him for blocks seemingly looking for a reason to stop him.
He talked about trying to enter the Capitol, as a senator wearing the official pin issued only to senators, and a Capitol Police officer stopped him and said: "'The pin I know. You, I don't. Show me your ID.'"
Are you proud? I sure wouldn't be.
The solution to the problem, though, is not the debasement of my values and the destruction of my culture and Nation.
Maybe police harass him because 50% of all murders and 90% of all violent crime is perpetrated by blacks, and they know that hate fact.
The solution is to hide all those hate facts from the police and the public, not.
Do you live in SPCV?
I was just there
It’s sure come up in the world
When most people get stopped for apparently no reason they figure the cop needs to meet quotes, or is having a bad day, or is an a-hole, or maybe, just maybe, the stoppage WAS justified.
When black victicrats get stopped for apparently no reason they figure it can ONLY be about “racism.” In fact, it’s racism even when the infraction is obvious.
I am a white man. When I was young I had a night job. When I was driving home from work late at night I was pulled over by the cops several times for the the slightest infraction or no infraction at all. After the police officer determined that I was not drunk they would let me go.
I once had a Costco receipt checker write “Have a nice day, Honky” on my receipt. I was outraged.
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The pin **IS** the ID. It's only issued to sitting Senators.
It would be like driving onto a military base with a base tag, showing your ID, and then the MP asking you to pull over so they can verify your ID on their system.
It happens, but it's not normal. In the case of a Capitol Police officer asking someone who is wearing a Senator's pin to produce more ID, it is extraordinarily rare.
Or maybe you could find the strangled remnants of empathy in your soul and revive them just long enough to consider that maybe a genuine problem exists.
There is a problem. The problem is black males commit crime far disproportionally to their percent of the population. Everything else in this “issue” cascades from that.
So only whites should be stopped? That is what the left is aiming for.
The analytical part of me always asks: compared to what?
Upon what basis do these young black men compare their experience to that of young white men? Did they do a detailed study?
The answer, of course, is: no. They automatically assume every white boy was born in a mansion. They get media sympathy from their victimhood and they see how many doors that opens for them, so they up the ante.
elected with the help of those white racists known as the Tea Party /sarc
Indeed
Revels denunciation of carpetbaggers and the Yankee occupation of Reconstruction being corrupt my favorite part
He was not easily managed by his northern masters
God love him
I don’t think he is pushing this angle whatsoever. There are acts that don’t exist where CRIMINALS cry they are targeted and altogether something else when a Senator having a reason to be there is stopped repeatedly. This I do agree with him on and I too would ask why so often?
That is a legit complaint
“Or maybe you could find the strangled remnants of empathy in your soul and revive them just long enough to consider that maybe a genuine problem exists.”
Oh, I have empathy... for the victims of BLM. Like those 5 officers that were murdered and countless lives taken and destroyed by BLM throughout the years. BLM yoots top the list of murderers and rapists. For them, I have neither an iota of empathy nor sympathy.
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He talked about trying to enter the Capitol, as a senator wearing the official pin issued only to senators, and a Capitol Police officer stopped him and said: “’The pin I know. You, I don’t. Show me your ID.’”
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And anther was SPAT upon during a Tea Party gathering...
Sorry, I don’t trust a word out of ANY politicians mouth, unless it’s on record of some sort (video, voting/roll-call, etc.). Most of these bafoons haven’t been in the REAL world for ages.
When black victicrats get stopped for apparently no reason they figure it can ONLY be about “racism.” In fact, it’s racism even when the infraction is obvious.
That victimhood mentality has juts about destroyed the black community. I learned about it when I tried hiring blacks for a retail operation. I hired dozens and none lasted a year. Young black males were the worst performing. Black females were a bit better. The problem I noticed was every work place kerfuffle become a racial injustice. Once they get the “racist” boss whitey is out to get me in their heads they are unable to keep there heads down and stay focused.
WOPS?!?
How politically incorrect! LOL
When I was a kid, I went with my Dad to our local barber shop, it was run by a bunch of Italians who routinely called each other ‘WOPS’ or ‘DAGOS’ and laughed about it, they were great guys, and like my Dad, they had served in the military during World War II, and one day they started sharing some war stories, when suddenly we realized they had been fighting for il Duce’, NOT on our side, as a kid I was appalled (having watched way too many episodes of ‘Combat’ with Vic Morrow), but my Dad reassured me and said “don’t worry about it, they’re on our side now”.
Great times.
There eyes became as big as saucers. It was a revelation to them. They honestly believed it never happens to white people. Just them.
Persecution complex: hard wiring that’s hard to fix when it is psychologically beneficial to ones identity and self-pardoning proclivities.. Status is no cure.
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