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Black Princeton Professor [Probably lying...] Says She Was Handcuffed to Table Over Parking Ticket
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 17, 2016, 5:50:27 PM2/17/16
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protests-her-parking-ticket-arrest.html?_r=0
A black Princeton professor is protesting her arrest during a traffic stop
last week, saying she was mistreated because of her race by two white
police officers who searched her and handcuffed her to a table.
The police chief in Princeton, N.J., however, said the officers had
followed department policy in arresting the professor, Imani Perry.
The arrest of Dr. Perry, a professor of African-American studies, and the
divergent views of how it was handled have reignited a debate on social
media over police tactics and racial profiling.
The arrest came after officers stopped Dr. Perry around 9:30 a.m. on
Saturday for driving 67 miles per hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone, Capt. Nicholas
K. Sutter, the department chief, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
While Dr. Perry said in a message posted online that she was arrested over
“a single parking ticket,” Captain Sutter said that the officers who
stopped her — a man and a woman — learned during a routine check that her
driving privileges had been suspended and a warrant had been issued for
her arrest over two unpaid parking violations from 2013.
“The warrant commands the officer to take the person into custody,”
Captain Sutter said.
The officers searched, handcuffed and placed Dr. Perry into a squad car,
the captain said. At the police station, she was handcuffed to a
workstation and booked. After paying outstanding fines totaling $130, he
said, she was released.
Dr. Perry, who declined to comment via email on Tuesday, wrote about the
episode on Twitter and Facebook on Monday, saying it had left her
humiliated and frightened.
She said the male officer had performed a “body search” despite the
presence of a female officer, and that she had not been allowed to make a
phone call before being placed in the squad car. She was handcuffed to a
table at the police station, she said.
Dr. Perry said that her accounts of the arrest had drawn abusive comments
and suggestions that she had brought it on herself. At the same time, she
said, she had also attracted supporters who questioned whether a white
suspect would have been treated the same way.
She wrote: “There are a number of commentators online who have repeated to
me an all-too-common formulation: ‘Well, if you hadn’t done anything
wrong, this wouldn’t have happened.’ But this demand for behavioral
perfection from Black people in response to disproportionate policing and
punishment is a terrible red herring.”
Police departments across the country have drawn scrutiny over what
critics have called the harsh treatment of minority suspects. Episodes
including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a white officer in
Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island
have led to protests, lawsuits and inquiries by the Justice Department.
Another case that captured the national spotlight was the 2015 arrest of
Sandra Bland, a black woman from Illinois who was pulled over in Texas in
a routine traffic stop that escalated into a confrontation. Ms. Bland
spent three days in a county jail before she was found hanging in a cell.
Princeton has been the scene of racial unrest for other reasons in recent
months, with students staging a sit-in at the university president’s
office in an effort to combat what they said were racial tensions on
campus.
Captain Sutter, who said he had watched dashboard camera footage of Dr.
Perry’s arrest, said it did not show anything unusual. He said the male
officer had checked the “exterior portion of her clothing,” meaning Dr.
Perry’s jacket pockets and the areas around her shoes.
Asked whether the female officer should have searched Dr. Perry, Captain
Sutter said department policy did not require that female officers search
female suspects. He said it would not be practical because the department
had only eight female officers. “When we can, we should,” he added. “We
will look at the policy.”
Dr. Perry, who joined Princeton in 2009, is also an author who reviewed a
book about race for The New York Times.
During the arrest, Captain Sutter said, Dr. Perry asked if she could text
someone and was told she could not on the side of the road. Once at the
police station, she was handcuffed to the workstation, he said.
“Every single person brought back there is secured while the officer is
processing,” he said, adding that exceptions were sometimes made if a
suspect was injured in a way that made handcuffing unfeasible.
He said he did not know how long Dr. Perry had been handcuffed to the bar,
but that the process usually took 15 minutes. Dr. Perry posted bail, and
after about an hour at the station she was picked up by someone and left.
“I don’t want to sound in any way like I am being defensive or arguing
that Dr. Perry is not entitled to feel the way she does,” Captain Sutter
said. “We are part of the larger law enforcement community in our current
times in law enforcement. Therefore I understand how in this climate we
can be perceived to be a microcosm of that.”
Dr. Perry said on Facebook that she was keeping the arrest in perspective,
and was not comparing it to others that had more dire consequences. But,
she added, “I hope that this circle of attention will be part of a deeper
reckoning with how and why police officers behave the way they do,
especially towards those of us whose flesh is dark.”
Continue reading the main story
Yesterday, on my way to work, I was arrested in Princeton Township for a
single parking ticket three years ago...
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
Continue reading the main story
The police refused to allow me to make a call before my arrest, so that
someone would know where I was...
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
Continue reading the main story
There was a male and a female officer, but the male officer did the body
search before cuffing me and putting me in the squad car.
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
I was handcuffed to a table at the station.
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
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protests-her-parking-ticket-arrest.html?_r=0
A black Princeton professor is protesting her arrest during a traffic stop
last week, saying she was mistreated because of her race by two white
police officers who searched her and handcuffed her to a table.
The police chief in Princeton, N.J., however, said the officers had
followed department policy in arresting the professor, Imani Perry.
The arrest of Dr. Perry, a professor of African-American studies, and the
divergent views of how it was handled have reignited a debate on social
media over police tactics and racial profiling.
The arrest came after officers stopped Dr. Perry around 9:30 a.m. on
Saturday for driving 67 miles per hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone, Capt. Nicholas
K. Sutter, the department chief, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
While Dr. Perry said in a message posted online that she was arrested over
“a single parking ticket,” Captain Sutter said that the officers who
stopped her — a man and a woman — learned during a routine check that her
driving privileges had been suspended and a warrant had been issued for
her arrest over two unpaid parking violations from 2013.
“The warrant commands the officer to take the person into custody,”
Captain Sutter said.
The officers searched, handcuffed and placed Dr. Perry into a squad car,
the captain said. At the police station, she was handcuffed to a
workstation and booked. After paying outstanding fines totaling $130, he
said, she was released.
Dr. Perry, who declined to comment via email on Tuesday, wrote about the
episode on Twitter and Facebook on Monday, saying it had left her
humiliated and frightened.
She said the male officer had performed a “body search” despite the
presence of a female officer, and that she had not been allowed to make a
phone call before being placed in the squad car. She was handcuffed to a
table at the police station, she said.
Dr. Perry said that her accounts of the arrest had drawn abusive comments
and suggestions that she had brought it on herself. At the same time, she
said, she had also attracted supporters who questioned whether a white
suspect would have been treated the same way.
She wrote: “There are a number of commentators online who have repeated to
me an all-too-common formulation: ‘Well, if you hadn’t done anything
wrong, this wouldn’t have happened.’ But this demand for behavioral
perfection from Black people in response to disproportionate policing and
punishment is a terrible red herring.”
Police departments across the country have drawn scrutiny over what
critics have called the harsh treatment of minority suspects. Episodes
including the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a white officer in
Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island
have led to protests, lawsuits and inquiries by the Justice Department.
Another case that captured the national spotlight was the 2015 arrest of
Sandra Bland, a black woman from Illinois who was pulled over in Texas in
a routine traffic stop that escalated into a confrontation. Ms. Bland
spent three days in a county jail before she was found hanging in a cell.
Princeton has been the scene of racial unrest for other reasons in recent
months, with students staging a sit-in at the university president’s
office in an effort to combat what they said were racial tensions on
campus.
Captain Sutter, who said he had watched dashboard camera footage of Dr.
Perry’s arrest, said it did not show anything unusual. He said the male
officer had checked the “exterior portion of her clothing,” meaning Dr.
Perry’s jacket pockets and the areas around her shoes.
Asked whether the female officer should have searched Dr. Perry, Captain
Sutter said department policy did not require that female officers search
female suspects. He said it would not be practical because the department
had only eight female officers. “When we can, we should,” he added. “We
will look at the policy.”
Dr. Perry, who joined Princeton in 2009, is also an author who reviewed a
book about race for The New York Times.
During the arrest, Captain Sutter said, Dr. Perry asked if she could text
someone and was told she could not on the side of the road. Once at the
police station, she was handcuffed to the workstation, he said.
“Every single person brought back there is secured while the officer is
processing,” he said, adding that exceptions were sometimes made if a
suspect was injured in a way that made handcuffing unfeasible.
He said he did not know how long Dr. Perry had been handcuffed to the bar,
but that the process usually took 15 minutes. Dr. Perry posted bail, and
after about an hour at the station she was picked up by someone and left.
“I don’t want to sound in any way like I am being defensive or arguing
that Dr. Perry is not entitled to feel the way she does,” Captain Sutter
said. “We are part of the larger law enforcement community in our current
times in law enforcement. Therefore I understand how in this climate we
can be perceived to be a microcosm of that.”
Dr. Perry said on Facebook that she was keeping the arrest in perspective,
and was not comparing it to others that had more dire consequences. But,
she added, “I hope that this circle of attention will be part of a deeper
reckoning with how and why police officers behave the way they do,
especially towards those of us whose flesh is dark.”
Continue reading the main story
Yesterday, on my way to work, I was arrested in Princeton Township for a
single parking ticket three years ago...
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
Continue reading the main story
The police refused to allow me to make a call before my arrest, so that
someone would know where I was...
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
Continue reading the main story
There was a male and a female officer, but the male officer did the body
search before cuffing me and putting me in the squad car.
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
I was handcuffed to a table at the station.
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) Feb. 7, 2016
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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