Black senator pulled over by cops 7 times in year
South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott says he’s been constantly profiled by police.
In the course of one year as an elected official, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was pulled over seven times by law enforcement. Another time, a Capitol Police officer demanded that Scott show him his ID because the special pin on Scott’s suit jacket ― a pin assigned to United States senators ― evidently wasn’t enough.
Scott shared these stories and more Wednesday evening during a roughly 18-minute speech on the Senate floor. He is the only black senator in the Republican conference, and one of just two in the upper chamber.
His speech on Wednesday was the second in a series of three in response to a lone gunman killing five police officers in Dallas last week, as well as the police shootings of Alton Sterling, who was killed outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, who was shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota. Scott delivered his first speech on Tuesday and plans to deliver the final one Thursday.
“This speech is perhaps the most difficult, because it’s the most personal,” Scott said during his Wednesday remarks.
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whatthe46 July 14th, 2016 at 12:33
You’re talking to a party that doesn’t give a damn not do they give a damn about you. Get out
Larry Schmitt July 14th, 2016 at 12:37
I wonder if he could get elected in SC as a democrat.
Larry Schmitt July 14th, 2016 at 12:34
Guilty of LWB (legislating while black).
StoneyCurtisll July 14th, 2016 at 12:53
I’m not sure about South Carolina, but here in Missouri I see State Reps have special licenses plates that identify them as such…the tag is unmistakable as “special”..(different color and looks nothing like a typical plate)…
Usually those with the “state rep tag” are passing me as if they are responding to an emergency….(not likely to be pulled over)..
But here in Missouri, we dont have that many people of color in our legislature..
Lyndia July 14th, 2016 at 23:49
What is a person of color?
StoneyCurtisll July 14th, 2016 at 13:09
I just watched the Tim Scott speech…..
Thats some powerful stuff…
Especially coming from a republican US Senator….
whatthe46 July 14th, 2016 at 13:35
Well did it take him being harrassed to open his mouth. The execution of black male’s didn’t just start last week. Nor has pulling them over for DWB.
StoneyCurtisll July 14th, 2016 at 13:50
Exactly…
whatthe46 July 14th, 2016 at 13:58
I have no sympathy for him. It always takes this type of abuse others go through everyday that they ignore, to happen to them before they speak out. So fk him.
mistlesuede July 14th, 2016 at 13:58
The difference being that you are still alive.
The others are not.
StoneyCurtisll July 14th, 2016 at 15:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VaNhI4CLo
burqa July 14th, 2016 at 18:24
I believe I heard the audio on the radio this morning. Best part was when Scott said the fuzz recognized the pin, but not him, and asked for I
.Fortunately, Scott lives in a region where the racism is not as bad as up north or other regions:
Don’t look to the South for the parts of the country that lock up more African Americans:
http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/2022
Po-lice civil rights violations and use of excessive force are far more common up north:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/11/13/forced-reforms-mixed-results/
Racial discrimination in housing, economic opportunity and education are worse outtside Dixie, too…
amersham1046 July 14th, 2016 at 20:07
Seven times , and yet to be shot now that is the real story
Lyndia July 14th, 2016 at 23:50
When freedom came in 1865, there were still some people that did not want to be free. I always remember that, when I see Black, right wing repubs.