Police in Kansas handcuff black motorist over 'vegetation' in his car window

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Granted it is the Communist Noose Network, but this link has the video: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/us/police-kansas-detain-man-vegetation-trnd/index.html
Black driver, Rudy Samuel:
"Officer says I failed to put my signal light on within a hundred feet," he says to the camera. "And it wasn't a hundred feet, but whatever."
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Cops:
"Hey Mr. Samuel, what caught my attention was this vegetation stuff right here," one of them says, pulling something from the seal of the car's driver's-side window.
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Samuel refused a search, and says he was was forcibly removed, cuffed, and banged around while they searched his vehicle. He was ultimately let go with two verbal warnings.

I may be jaded, but it seems quite reasonable and plausible to me that a piece of 'vegetation' stuck to a car has a 1000x more likelihood of being from a tree or something than being MJ.

Another case of 'driving while black'? You decide.
 
You mean you don’t drive through your weed fields picking up vegetation in your windows? I thought it was common.

I don’t know if this is “driving while black” (I cringe even using the phrase) or just a very very loose application of reasonable suspicious/fishing for a violation
 
It's really sad that the good, law abiding, taxpayers of Kansas are gonna have to foot the bill for Mr. Samuels settlement while these two officers get two weeks paid leave and a slap on the wrist.
Violation of a persons Constitutionally protected rights by an officer should result in termination and personal responsibility for the settlement.
 
OK, fellas, strap in for a story.

My nephew and his wife and daughters were visiting this weekend, from Dallas, Texas. My nephew is no loser: masters degree, speaks Arabic, in a special ops unit in the Army Reserve. About 5 years ago, when he graduated with his masters, he lived with my sister (his mom), and her husband. Back story: my sister is divorced, met her husband in a biker bar. Turns out he was a meth dealer, also an enforcer with the Banditos, had also been convicted of child porn. So, my nephew, fresh from school crashing at his mom's pad while he looked for a job.

One day he left to go see his fiancé (now wife) for lunch. Driving through a burb of Dallas, was pulled over. He was cuffed, they asked him if they could search his car, he said no, they searched it anyways. He repeatedly demanded what the charge was, they never said. He demanded a lawyer, they told him no. They took him to the local jail. While he is in custody, he sees my sister's piece of shit husband come in. Turns out the DEA and ATF raided my sister's home, arrested her POS husband for possession and other drug charges.

They finally clear my nephew of anything. At first they thought he was one of the "associates" of my sister's POS husband. They did charge him with failure to use a signal when they pulled him over.

My nephew called his future father-in-law, a retired attorney with the fed government. Through wrangling and dealing the arrest and 'failure to use a signal' charge were expunged. The city reimbursed the $200 fine (for failure to use a signal). Because it was the feds who impounded the car, they wouldn't reimburse the $500 impound fee. They got a "formal apology," but a judge refused to go forward with a wrongful arrest suit as well as any recognition of 4th amendment and civil violations.

So there it is. Further erosion of trust of the 'justice' system and LE agencies.
 
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