black shoppers Spent $1K While Shopping. Then Came the Security Guard/cop. Fired!

[Demovictory9]

‘I got my rights to do anything I want to do’: Officer immediately fired after viral video shows him stopping black shoppers for ‘acting suspicious’


Aaron Blackwell and his cousin Durell Cunningham had no idea why the Nordstrom Rack security guard was striding purposefully toward their car. It didn’t make sense, Blackwell would later recall. The man had watched the pair pay for their items inside the Indianapolis store, yet he still followed them outside and tried to take down their license plate number. Now, he was demanding Cunningham present his driver’s license.

“You’re acting suspicious,” the man told the cousins, who are both black. If he didn’t see identification soon, the man threatened to tow their car, or worse, have them arrested.

The tense standoff that played out last week in the parking lot outside the Nordstrom Rack was captured in a 17-minute cellphone video that has since gone viral, sparking accusations that the two men were racially profiled by the white security guard, who was later identified as Lawrence Township deputy constable Daryl Jones. The video was posted to YouTube on Nov. 13 and Lawrence Township chief constable Terry Burns told RTV6 he “made the decision immediately” to fire Jones, ousting the veteran law enforcement officer that night. Jones, who was off-duty at the time of the incident, is also no longer employed at the store, NBC News reported Tuesday.

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The men push back, repeatedly asking Jones why he needs to see identification.

“Because I told you to,” the deputy constable responds. He later says, “Because you want to run your mouth to me.”

The situation escalates when one of the men tells Jones he doesn’t have the right to run the car’s license plate.

“I got my rights to do anything I want to do,” Jones yells, leaning into the open driver’s window. “I’m a police officer.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/20/indiana-cop-fired-harassing-black-nordstrom-rack-shoppers-viral-video/














They Spent $1K While Shopping. Then Came the Security Guard
Cop Daryl Jones fired after targeting black shoppers in viral video



A white Indiana police officer has lost two jobs—one on the force and another as a store security guard—after he was seen targeting black shoppers in a viral video. Cousins Aaron Blackwell and Durell Cunningham were filming Nov. 12 as Nordstrom Rack security guard Daryl Jones, also a Lawrence Township deputy constable, approached their car after they'd spent more than $1,000 at the store north of Indianapolis, per the Washington Post. "You're acting suspicious," said Jones, who'd reportedly watched the men as they shopped and then tried to take down their license plate number. Told he didn't have the right, Jones replied, "I got my rights to do anything I want to do, I'm a police officer." He then threatened to have the pair arrested if they didn't show ID.

An Indianapolis police officer eventually arrived, spoke to the cousins, then took Jones aside. Returning, he said, "I don't think either of us have any reasonable suspicion to believe there's a crime taking place ... so there's no legal requirement for you to identify yourself." Lawrence Township Chief Constable Terry Burns tells NBC News that he fired Jones, a 20-year veteran of the force, within two hours of viewing the video posted Nov. 13, now seen more than 360,000 times. Staff at the store say Jones no longer works there, either. The fight isn't over for Cunningham, however. "This is not just about me or my cousin, or even just this city. It's about how things have been and how things cannot continue to be," he says in a video shared Monday, per the Post. "We're going to fight for everybody." (Read more racial profiling stories.)
https://www.newser.com/story/283312/cop-accused-of-racial-profiling-is-fired-twice.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. 🚬🕳👮‍♂️

[Iwasthere]

2. Pig!

All of them, if they turn away, and how often do you hear of an officer standing up?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. FTP.

[MineralMan]

4. Mall Cop/Constable Wishes He Could Afford to Spend $1000.

That's what this was about.

"How dare someone of color spend that kind of money?" That's what he thought.

[catbyte]

5. Exactly. "They must be drug dealers" mentality. Despicable. So glad he got fired from both jobs.

My dad was a cop for 30 years and he always said that he hated cops who threw their weight around like this guy did more than he hated criminals. I miss my dad.

[Sapient Donkey]

9. Spending $1,000 at a store like that isn't even that much

around the holidays. I mean, it's obviously more than normal. It adds up pretty quick given the fact a pair of pants can be at least $50 and shirts easily the same or more. Throw in some jackets and before you know it you're quickly at that level.

[MineralMan]

10. I don't shop in stores like that very often, and if I do it's for one thing.

I buy my clothes at the local farm and fleet store. Shoes, too. I have very simple tastes.

Still, that mall cop/local constable probably never shops there. It griped his ass that some person of color had the money to spend $1000 in that store. Pissed him right off. So, he reacted by being an racist asshole. Par for the course.

[NCLefty]

13. Still--he saw them spend a thousand dollars and still harassed them.

That's messed up.

[maxrandb]

6. This is example 758,675,532 of why Donnie Shit for Brains needs to go to prison

See how easily we've gone from "I can do anything I want, I'm the president", to "I can do anything I want, I'm a police officer"?

This shit comes from the top.

This attitude permeates all the way from the person responsible for implementing the laws to those responsible for enforcing them.

This shit permeates from 1,200 Hate Radio stations around the country. They dehumanize people that have the "gall" to disagree with them politically, and the people that listen to them don't treat people as humans.

Make no mistake. This fuckstick cop got his attitude from the attitude of the Retrumplicans.

This shit needs to be fixed from the top down.

[fescuerescue]

7. I dunno.

I think cops have been copping that attitude since long before Trump was out of short pants.

Heck. I think I could make a case that cops authoritarian attitudes, having long existed, have influences the attitudes of many in Trump's generation. Including Trump

Trump's gonna go for sure. But the trend has been towards MORE cop authoritization not less and across many many administrations.

Have how candidates campaign on "let's have fewer cops"?

[Sapient Donkey]

8. This is enraging to watch

I'm sure some folks somewhere will defend the now ex-cop, though.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. Lawrence Township-known for racist cops

A historically racist township. This guy forgot that everybody has cameras now.

[StarfishSaver]

12. This is how innocent black men get killed while "resisting arrest"

And people - even some progressives - assume it was their fault.