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I predict we are going to hear more about this one.An African American judge who has accused UCLA police of excessive force ignored officers' orders to stay in his car, UCLA officials said Monday.
David S. Cunningham III, a former Los Angeles Police Commission president, filed a complaint against the officers after they allegedly shoved him against his car, handcuffed him and locked him in the back seat of their police cruiser.
"During the course of the traffic stop, police officers instructed the driver to stay inside the vehicle and returned to their patrol car to run a routine license and registration check," UCLA said in a statement released late Monday afternoon. "Despite these instructions, the driver left the vehicle an escalating behavior that can place officers at risk."
Cunningham "stood in the roadway" and refused to get back in his car, the statement said. As a result, he was temporarily handcuffed. He was released at the scene shortly after being cited for failing to wear a seat belt.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-judge-handcuffed-20131125,0,4036838.story
bemildred
(90,061 posts)David S. Cunningham III is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, and a onetime federal civil rights attorney.
But on Saturday morning, he found himself handcuffed in the back of a UCLA police car. Officers had pulled him over as he was driving his Mercedes out of his Westwood gym because, the police said, he wasn't wearing his seat belt.
What happened next is a matter of dispute, but it ended with the African American judge yelling to a growing crowd in the heart of Westwood Village about police brutality.
Cunningham, 59, has now filed an excessive force complaint with the university, and his attorney said Monday that he believed race was a factor in how the judge was treated.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-judge-ucla-20131126,0,3286857.story
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)you stay in your car at a police stop.
Could he perhaps have been pushing the issue?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)that he refused the cop's order and the cops did what they often do when you dis them.
The rest remains to be seen.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)All we know so far is they didn't get along.
mynaturalrights
(97 posts)It might turn out that he was released because of who he was.
Where you and me would have been arrested and brought in for getting out of the car
and refusing orders to get back in.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)You'd be singled out?
mynaturalrights
(97 posts)unless I got out of my car during a traffic stop .