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Thanksgiving morning began sweetly for Cesar Baldelomar. No work. Beautiful weather. And good tunes thumping from his car stereo. As the 26-year-old cruised through Hialeah toward his parents' house, he could practically smell his mother's cooking wafting down 24th Avenue.
But when Baldelomar pulled up to the stoplight at West 60th Street, Hialeah Police Officer Harold Garzon was standing nearby, filling out some paperwork from a traffic accident. At that moment, another song came on Baldelomar's stereo. "Fuck tha police/Comin' straight from the underground," N.W.A. rapped. "A young n**** got it bad cause I'm brown / And not the other color so police think / they have the authority to kill a minority."
Then came the song's eponymous refrain -- "Fuck tha police!" -- four times in a row.
"Really?" Garzon said to Baldelomar through his open car window. "You're really playing that song? Pull over."
Garzon is a buzzcutted cop with sleeve tattoos and sunglasses. He's also a 17-year veteran with 16 internal affairs cases against him, according to records. (It's unclear how many were sustained; Hialeah PD didn't respond to New Times' requests for comment.) .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2014/12/hialeah_cop_pulls_over_harvard_grad_for_playing_nwa_song_f_tha_police.php
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Police State Bulletin (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2014
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. full of shit..I would be suing him and the police department and the city for violating my rights
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)2. K&R n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Thought police.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)4. Driving...oops, I mean LISTENING to music while black. I can't breath.