In Disbelief Over Her Inability to Control or Communicate w/a Disfluent White TX Cop a Black Lady Called 911 for Help During a Traffic Stop but More Public Masters Arrived to Provide Mandatory Service
MASTER SERVANT RELATIONS IN THE FREE RANGE: “I’m Black, he’s white, and we already know what the issue is.” [Really? Is Racism White Supremacy the only thing at play here?] From [HERE] A Fort Worth woman filed a lawsuit against the city after she was handcuffed for 17 minutes in the back of a police car during a traffic stop in which she says a Fort Worth police officer racially profiled her.
When Shamika Whitfield was pulled over in 2019, the officer who approached the driver’s side window was immediately aggressive, according to a lawsuit she filed against the city in federal court on May 17. She called 911 out of fear when the officer demanded she get out of the car after she informed him she had a legal handgun in the vehicle, the suit says.
“I cannot calm down because he is way too aggressive,” she told the 911 operator. “I’m Black, he’s white, and we already know what the issue is.”
The officer who pulled Whitfield over, Officer Thomas Shelton, was suspended for 30 days without pay for his actions during the traffic stop, according to disciplinary records. An internal affairs investigation concluded that Shelton failed to follow the department’s policies of de-escalation, professional conduct, handcuffing prisoners and traffic arrests.
The suit does not name Shelton or the police department as defendants, but says the city of Fort Worth is at fault for fostering an unofficial policy of excessive force within its police force. Whitfield also accuses the city of unlawful seizure because she was arrested and put into a police car.
In a response filed by the city of Fort Worth on May 28, the city denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
Whitfield has a valid concealed carry license, the lawsuit says. According to the lawsuit, an officer told her, “This is what happens when you say you have a gun in the car.”
The citation, which was the entire basis of the stop, was ultimately dismissed, according to the lawsuit.
Legal scholar Charles Epps explains: “Police stops matter, No form of direct government control comes close to these stops in sheer numbers, frequency, proportion of the population affected, and, in many instances, the degree of coercive intrusion. The police make some eighteen million traffic stops per year in the United States. Nationally, 12 percent of drivers are stopped per year by the police. Among racial minorities the rate is considerably higher: 24 percent or more by some estimates. . . Police stops convey powerful messages about citizenship and equality. Across millions of stops, these experiences are translated into common stories about who is an equal member of a rule-governed society and who is subjected to arbitrary surveillance and inquiry.”
Similarly, law professor Frank Baumgartner states that “It is no exaggeration to say that traffic stops are the epicenter of police-citizen interactions. Perceptions about their fairness will go a long way toward shaping citizens’ opinions of the police and even the government more broadly. . . If officers are apologetic, hesitant, grateful, and formal in their addresses to white drivers, but informal, disfluent, negative, and commanding in their interactions with blacks, then there should be no surprise that the two population groups express different levels of satisfaction following such interactions.”
Such talk only concerns managing relations and people’s perceptions in the free range prison toward the lex-icon’s goal [“law as image - (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.”] of the appearance of justice. The appearance of justice is the only product the criminal justice system produces; make it look right even though its rigged. The purpose is to maintain legitimacy of rulership to obtain your cooperative control and consent to oppression.
As FUNKTIONARY explains legal truths must give way to reality on the street. In real life rights are myths. If rights have any existence perhaps so solely upon the thought standard; you have them if a government agent believes you do. Cops so frequently abuse their power that no Black shopper, pedestrian, motorist, juvenile, adult or Black professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights afford any real protection from cops. The possession of "rights” given to you by a government is cult belief . Drop it like a wooden coin.
According to FUNKTIONARY:
"rights" - useful fictions declared in order to make agents of another type of fiction ("government") have to play along in their deadly theatrical (tragicomedy) game. 2) mere fictions, the contemplation of which leads only to a progressive social, personal, racial and jurisprudential separation from reality. Discussion and debates about "rights" merely evades the FAQ, i.e., the frequently avoided question of who is to enforce any "right" and who will benefit from the pretense. "Rights" are separated into two categories—those flowing from "negative liberties" and those flowing from "positive liberties." In law, rights are remedies and if a person is without a remedy (as is with citizens of the United States) he is without a right, and only a 'thing' is without rights. (See: Negative Liberties, Positive Liberties, Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Ma'at & Justice) [MORE]