Black Raleigh mom wants answers after she's handcuffed by Raleigh PD in her bathrobe

[Demovictory9]

https://abc11.com/raleigh-police-stacey-campbell-officer/6444208/


'This is not OK': Black Raleigh mom wants answers after she's handcuffed by Raleigh PD in her bathrobe


RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A Raleigh mom wants answers from the Raleigh Police Department after she was detained and handcuffed on the side of the road while she was in her bathrobe. She believes she was targeted because she's black with a luxury car.

The ordeal began around 9:30 on Wednesday night, last week, near Hargett and Pettigrew Streets -- just off New Bern Avenue. In cell phone video from a nearby neighbor, you can see Stacey Campbell in handcuffs in her bathrobe being detained by a Raleigh police officer. Campbell is black. The officer was a white woman.

"I'm embarrassed about what happened to me. I'm very embarrassed," said Campbell who says she was in the neighborhood that night to check on a friend in crisis. During the visit she went to retrieve something from her new Cadillac SUV.

"And once I closed the door to the vehicle a police officer walks up to me and she goes, 'Take your hands out your pockets and put them on top of the hood.' And I'm like, ok, what's going on? What's wrong?"

The officer told Campbell that her car's registration was coming back to another woman with an outstanding warrant. "I said, well that's impossible. I just got this car on April 28. And these are brand new tags."



Campbell said the officer ordered her not to move. "But I had my robe on; it was tied and my hands were up here. And I just moved my waist -- I never took my hands off my vehicle. And she put me in handcuffs."

As drivers and passersby looked on, things took another turn for the 48-year old mother of three. "She searches me. She pats me down and I'm handcuffed. And then she pulls up my entire robe. And I had nothing underneath except a t-shirt and underwear. She exposed the whole lower half of my body.

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Campbell says the ordeal ended when the officer told her she needed to call DMV to get the registration issue figured out. Campbell says she did that the very next morning only to be told there was no issue; her registration was fine. She filed a complaint against the officer this week.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, "She filed a complaint against the officer this week."

[kag]

4. Those complaints go nowhere...

Except buried deep inside some police department file room. She needs to sue them!

[Meowmee]

2. sue them as well...

[Cha]

3. I hope Campbell gets justice..

It should be recorded, right.

Sounds like the officer was speaking bullshit while the woman was being handcuffed while Black.

[mnhtnbb]

5. I know exactly where this is near

downtown Raleigh. My dog stayed with a pet sitter in the neighborhood for a week last March when I was out of town. It's a neighborhood being gentrified due to proximity of downtown Raleigh. I saw new luxury cars there on the three occasions when I was there with my dog.

Sounds like a BS excuse for racial profiling. The police chief in Raleigh is an African American woman.

[safeinOhio]

6. What if we tied police funding to

police conduct? Let them defund themselves.

The person to go after is the mayor of Raleigh. That is where the buck stops. That is who hires the chief of police. That is who’s job depends on voters. I sure hope that mayor is up for re-election this year.