Walking your dog while black

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Don Lewis
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Nikkita Brown takes her dog for a late night lakefront walk. She is approached by a Chicago police officer. Look what happens next. . .


4:23 AM · Aug 30, 2021

https://chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/crime/2021/8/29/22647583/copa-investigating-physical-encounter-between-white-cpd-officer-black-woman-captured-viral-video


Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Monday he is waiting for more information before deciding whether to discipline a police officer seen in a viral video restraining a woman who was walking a dog at North Avenue Beach.

Lawyers for the woman, who is Black, have called the altercation with the white officer “an obvious case of racial profiling.”

Brown wouldn’t comment on the allegation, saying only that “there was some closure of the beach that preceded this interaction. That’s the extent of what we know. We don’t have an arrest, apparently, by this officer. And we don’t fully understand because we haven’t interviewed this officer yet.”

Brown said the woman in the video hasn’t been interviewed either.

The superintendent said the investigation is being conducted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which looks into allegations of police misconduct. Brown said he is awaiting a briefing from COPA before considering whether to place the officer on desk duty or strip his police powers during the investigation.

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[Croney]

1. Why didn't the person filming help by at least screaming??

I couldn't have calmly filmed that. I would have gone crazy yelling at him to stop. But, I am white. The filmer may not have had the protection of that privilege.

[MineralMan]

4. Looks like the person videoing was in a truck.

I saw a steering wheel at the end of the video. I saw another truck parked there, too. Perhaps truckers park there for the night.

[Jeebo]

17. Mineral Man, thank you for saying "videoing" instead of "filming"

This is one of my pet peeves, people saying "filming" when they're obviously using a cellphone that does not have any film in it. Does anybody use cameras with film in them any more? It bugs me when they say "videotaping" too because nobody uses videotape any more, either. We all should use language that accurately describes what's going on.

And yes, that cop's behavior shows that he is not fit to be exercising police power over anybody. He should be fired at the very least. I wish we could hear what was being said between them just before he let her go. If she tests positive for the virus, she should sue the Chicago police and that cop specifically.

He especially should have respected her space. I'm a white guy and it's been 15 years since the last time I got pulled over, but if I were to be pulled over now, I would not allow the cop to approach me and would not roll down my car window unless he a) was vaccinated, and b) was wearing a mask. Otherwise I would tell him to call for another officer who met those criteria. Of course, this woman did not have that option because she was on foot. Still, it was perfectly appropriate for her to try to prevent his approach because he was unmasked. And he should have respected that.

-- Ron

[Trueblue1968]

8. FIRE HIM AND PUT HIM IN THE SLAMMER FOR 25 YEARS. Violent, criminal assault and attenpted rape.

[LakeArenal]

2. WTF is there to investigate?

Does he mean none of them looked at a 2 minute video? Geez why do we begin to hate police? Because they keep on giving us reason after reason.

[Me.]

3. Aside From What He Was Doing To Her

I was terrified he's take it out on the dog by shooting the little one who was trying to help her/his owner

[MustLoveBeagles]

25. So was I

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Racial profiling! Ya think?

Outrageous behavior on the cop's part. Completely out of line. She was walking her dog!

And then he grabbed her, to what end, I have no idea.

Good gawd.

My best to the woman and her dog.

[brush]

10. Not just racial profiling, that's assault...unprovoked.

She did nothing but try to keep her distance from his unmasked ass.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. True dat! n/t

[blm]

13. ✔️

[uponit7771]

22. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Start charging thug LEOs like this with crimes !!!

[dalton99a]

6. Something that happens all the time to white people

[RKP5637]

7. Many cops belong on the other side of the prison bars! n/t

[Trueblue1968]

9. LOCK HIM UP-- 25 years. general population & make him wear a shirt that says I WAS A COP

[Withywindle]

12. This is why I don't give cops the benefit of the doubt

For every one of these horrific incidents that gets filmed and circulated online - and there are too many, WAY too many - there must be hundreds if not thousands that we never hear about. It wouldn't be so widespread if cops didn't have a deep-rooted culture of racist gang violence with assumed impunity.

[RKP5637]

14. If in trouble and needed help, I would only contact cops as a last resort.

I don't trust them. Yep, I know there are good ones ... but there are also so many bad cops ... and often other cops and police unions cover for the bad ones.

[chia]

15. I was so afraid for that woman, and for her dog. But for cellphones, there would be no proof of the

encounter. I hope he's fired and prosecuted.

[brush]

16. Yes, police departments have got to start hiring smarter cops...

at least ones who are aware of such things as cellphones with video cameras...and that they're everywhere.

[Demovictory9]

18. Kick

[Mary in S. Carolina]

19. This cop is a rapist - just my opinion

Name names???? Who is he???? It is amazing to me that mug shots of black men and women make the front page of newspapers for shoplifting, but we can't even get the name of this assaulter. I think he "got off" on grabbing her, had it been in a dark area, I think this would be a different story.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

21. Nikkita needs to crush him

Most attorneys will take this case on contingency, crush this scum. Take all his money and make sure he never works in a position of authority again, his family will leave him and he will be an outcast. She was in clear danger of being beaten and raped by this cop - in my opinion.

[uponit7771]

23. +1, I could only look at certain part of the video and it does looks like he was trying to touch

... her using any excuse.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

24. Yep

This was a sexual assault in my eyes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. ACAB.