President Obama: I’ve Been Pulled Over For Driving While Black

Posted by | October 28, 2015 21:00 | Filed under: Andrew Bradford Contributors News Behaving Badly Politics

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Speaking in Chicago yesterday, President Obama told a room of some 14,000 police chiefs from around the country that he has nothing but respect and admiration for what police officers do, but added that he himself has been subjected to police harassment on more than one occasion simply because he’s black:

There were times when I was younger and maybe even as I got a little older, but before I had a motorcade — where I got pulled over. And I confessed… most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it. I knew why I was pulled over. But there were times where I didn’t…READ MORE at LiberalAmerica

 

 

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3 responses to President Obama: I’ve Been Pulled Over For Driving While Black

  1. Robert Smithson October 28th, 2015 at 22:15

    When? Where? I think he is lying again.

  2. William October 29th, 2015 at 10:33

    Yep. https://youtu.be/cu2Wa_bKX_4

  3. starskeptic October 29th, 2015 at 14:14

    I’m surprise he doesn’t get pulled over even with a motorcade.

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