ACLU Sues Over Trooper Enforcing Law
Posted on December 2, 2006
Another typical race card, pro-illegal immigration over-reaction by the ACLU.
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the State Police seeking the release of a videotape that shows a traffic stop involving illegal immigrants.
The videotape shows the first five minutes of a 70-minute stop on Interstate 95 in July by a trooper who pulled over a van with 14 Guatemalan immigrants after the driver failed to use a turn signal.
Trooper Thomas Chabot detained the 14 people and brought them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Providence, where they now face deportation. An internal investigation reported that Chabot acted appropriately.
The ACLU and civil-rights organizations raised concerns of racial profiling, and pushed for release of the videotape and copies of the department’s policies governing enforcement procedures.
Somehow pulling someone over for breaking the law is racial profiling? It is a sad affair that the ACLU is playing these people who are breaking the law by being here in the first place to attack this trooper for simply doing his job.
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So the wrong-headed ACLU comes down on the side of criminals again. One more reason America would be much better off without the ACLU.
Some local input from the Rhode Island area:
Apparently, the meat of the complaint is that the State Policeman is not a federal law enforecement official, and therefore has not the jurisdiction to bring these people to the ICE office. Of course this is a non-starter; if a State Policeman saw someone vandalizing a mailbox, they’d be within their rights to stop that person and arrest them, even though it’s a federal offense to tamper with the mail.
As a cop for 21 years…I got used to the lawsuits…but not the rationale behind them. Mostly they were filed as an attempt to get the charges on some [edited] dropped, however these ACLU lawsuits have an entirely differant agenda behind them…and that is scarey…
BTW…I never lost any lawsuits because I hadn’t done anything wrong to begin with…as the article stated…I was just doing my job…
Yeah, it can be. If you watch 10 white people commit the same offense, you’ll have a lot of explaining to do if you pull over the 11th guy who happens to be a minority. I’m not saying that’s the only explanation, but it can merit an investigation.
That pretty much explains why the want to see the tape and policies. Failure to signal is an extremely low priority offense for most police departments, so it is curious that he left his radar post to pursue that particular vehicle.
Give me a break Jeff! The only reason there is a lawsuit is because this was a bunch of illegal Mexicans he pulled over. I’ve been pulled over for the same thing before. The cop wasn’t out to give me a ticket for it, just to inform me that I need to use my signal when changing lanes. I’ve been pulled over for a burned out break light too.
Hey, now that I think of it, that cop was black. Maybe I should sue!
The cop pulled them over for breaking a law. He was probably gonna let em go with a warning. When he got there they were packed full in the van like sardines. He followed procedures and asked for a few I.D.’s. Whats so freakin racial about that? They couldn’t produce them. Know why? Because they were not citizens and were here illegally. So, the cop does the responsible thing and enforces the law. End of story.
“That pretty much explains why the want to see the tape and policies. Failure to signal is an extremely low priority offense for most police departments, so it is curious that he left his radar post to pursue that particular vehicle.” -Jeff Molby
So by your logic, if a cop is on “speed radar patrol” and sees a non -speed related infraction, he should not be allowed to do anything about it? Does this mean that if a cop on speed patrol sees a robbery, that cop can’t stop it unless the robbers speed while getting away?
As for the racial profiling, do you have proof that he was only pulling over non-whites? The whole cry of “I was racially profiled”, is complete B.S..
Are you sure? The ACLU is only suing for the video and a copy of the procedures. If everything checks out, that’ll be the end of it.
I wasn’t making any judgments about what should or should not have happened. I just said that I found it curious that the officer decided to abandon his assignment in favor of a low priority offense. He may have been entirely justified in doing so. Or maybe not
The ACLU should stop aiding criminals and really start taking a look at itself. Not everything the government does is wrong. I applaud the officer and I despise the ACLU. To the ACLU: You have lost your direction and are fighting the wrong fight.