On Saturday night my Fiancé and I were out having a drink with some friends. My son, who was staying with my father called me and wanted me to bring him a ginger ale because he had an upset stomach. So I pulled up in front of my fathers house, ran in, and came back out within 5 minutes. When I came outside, a Salisbury City cop had his lights activated and rode past my car, then did a U-turn and came back. The officer said someone had called in a complaint because I was parked the wrong way.. I was like hmm ok, so within 5 minutes someone called and complained and here you are??? Didn't seem right to me... Then the officers asked my Fiancé and I to step out of the car because they could small Marijuana. We did not have any weed in the car.. I had just bought the car on Wednesday from a car dealer in DE. Maybe that's where the smell was coming from?? So the MALE officer's searched my Fiancé and I, then searched my car. I thought male officers could not search a female subject??? Anyway, they continued to harass him for about 15 minutes patting him down, telling him that they KNOW he has weed.. Then as he was talking to them, one of the officer's said " I saw you spit it out." So now they are searching in the GRASS with FLASHLIGHTS trying to find this transparent Marijuana. We did have an open container in the car that they questioned my fiancé about... but didn't ask me if I had been drinking. And I was the driver.....Seems to me they could care less if I was drinking and driving.. they were only worried about my fiancé because he is of a different skin color than those Caucasian police officers. And normally I don't play the race card. But in the certain circumstance I will. Why sit there and harass him, when I am the driver if the car with an open container in visible sight?? (BTW I do not condone drinking and driving and I was not drunk...) And when the police were finally done harassing my fiancé, I was like so someone called in and complained right? He was like, "No I saw you park there." I just laughed... It is a shame that a black man can not even sit in a car without being harassed by the SALISBURY CITY cops, and this is not the first time and I am SURE it will not be the last!
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If you call Marijuana "weed" you normally are a smoker. So you left it at home.
ReplyDeleteYep sounds like profiling to me. Cop maybe thought either a quick drug buy or delivery had occured and that's why he decided to act the way he did.
ReplyDeleteThen file a complaint at the department
ReplyDeletecriminals complaining about nothing. Keep up the good work SPD.
ReplyDeleteOpen container, parked the wrong way? Where is the racism? Your the racist. I ve seen white people have the same thing happen to them. Get a life and stop blaming the man or whitey for al your problems. I have a great idea. Just let them park however they want and have open containers in their car.
ReplyDeleteJust few items to consider :
ReplyDelete1. if you were parked illegal
2. area you were in(high crime)
3. 95% of all crimes are committed by 20% of our population .
4. you can call it racial profiling or whatever , but this whole post sounds a little one sided.
You said you didn't want to pull the race card , but you did , so live with it.
You were wrong from jump street to park you car the wrong way , even for 5 minutes. Just asking for a confrontation. I only wish it was me who had confronted you , I would know the whole truth.
Good...they are doing their job. Hope they popped you for open container
ReplyDeleteYou are on the cities $hit list now. shame. shame
ReplyDeletecomplain to your mayor , mr. Ireton,he will help you , NOT!
ReplyDeleteContact the ACLU. There are ALOT of serious issues at that department that need to be addressed.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm I bet there is more to this story than this person is telling.
ReplyDeleteJoe
ReplyDeleteThe officers at SPD desperately need your help to bring to light the many issues there and what chief duncan is doing to run that place into the ground. There were many officers pulling for you to win the election to put a stop to the dictatorship that runs Spd.
Sorry to say but it does sound you are using the OLD race card, What a white police officer Cant Ask you a question because your Black,Cmon and your car smells like marijuana and it must be because you just got the car USED,? Didn't you smell that in the car when you bought it?, Take responsibility where the blame is Y.O.U.
ReplyDeleteIts not racism its a product of our "environment". A majority of the crime around here is committed by black males therefor if a cops sees something remotely suspicious like a black male sitting in front of a house in a car parked the wrong way he has every reason to stop and check and see whats goin on. As for the search and harrasment its complete bs they have no right to do that. Now if it wasnt you and your husband but infact real criminals in front of that house and the cops just rode by then there would be a post on here how the cops are not doing their jobs. It a double edged sword rally damned if they do damned if they dont.
ReplyDeleteHappened to me a few years ago at royal farms on snowhill rd. They pointed guns to my head and told me I was a big time dope dealer. They searched the truck and didnt find anything. My girlfriend was pregnant at the time but they didn't care. Im sure they profiled me cuz I was black and my pregnant girlfriend was white. Its 2014 now. This needs to stop.
ReplyDelete615 you couldn't find yourself a African American?
ReplyDeleteIt is wrong for this it happened to my husband a couple weeks ago, he was across the street at the store the white guy that works there was outside dusting off the mats and they were talking to each other next thing they knew an unmarked cop car pulled up and put both in handcuffs and called for back up when it was over with there were 5 city police and two state. Of course a waste of time they found nothing on none of them.
ReplyDeleteI love how some people write to Joe and they don't tell the WHOLE story. Then expect someone on here to feel sympathetic towards them. You ain't getting no sympathy here sister. We tell it like it is on here.So go find a libtard blog to cry to.
ReplyDeleteYou people are such hypocrites! You complain about losing your rights, a police state, lack of personal freedoms, but yet, you actually WISH someone would lose any rights and dignity they might have.
ReplyDeleteSo, it's ok for others to lose theirs, but leave yours alone, right?
You misguided cretins are the same as the government you complain about. You are so messed up in the heads, a sheep is actually smarter than you.
Boneheads.
6:15
ReplyDeleteHate to be the one to tell you but it is still 2013.
You were not drunk but you had an open container in the car? Well, this says volumes about your great law abiding life style. You and he probably did smoke weed in the car earlier. Yes MALE cops can search females and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteToday no one wants to take accountability for their actions. The cops are doing their jobs. Who cares why they stopped you. They are doing their jobs patrolling our community. Get off my street and take your beer and weed with you. We don't want "you people" (*CRIMINALS*) here. We are sick of people thinking that they have all the rights in the world and cops and society have none to control them.
Good work SPD. Keep it up.
Im white and few years ago i was speeding over by ERA and got pulled over. I was 24 ten and i had a good job and a nice car that i had left the windows don when it rained so it smelled musty the cop said he smelled weed and next thing you know theres 5 cops and a dog they searched my car and told me a dried up maple leave was pot and they could lock me up but they were gonna let me go. I was pissed then but know that im a little older i realized they were just doing their job. Point being that it happens to WHITE PEOPLE too. That being said if you always compare one race to another your the racist you should be more like this shouldnt happen to ANYONE and by ANY color cop. Oh yea and the cops that searched me were white or caucasians as you call us!
ReplyDelete831 Your crying because you broke the law and try to twist it your way, the cops where doing there jobs grow up and stop counting sheep...Waaaaaaaaah
ReplyDeleteThere is a HUGE problem in this town with idiots parking the wrong way speeding through school zones, aggressive driving, everyone on there cell, on on on...idiots from Philly/Bronx, Go back to your hell Holes.
ReplyDeleteMove this to the top
ReplyDeleteWhat is up with the third officer (Weiss) involved in the fatal police chase? He lied about being involved for several weeks while the investigation was under way and now after they find out that he was the driver of the mysterious third police car and was a witness to a fatal car chase they don't do anything to him? The officers of the other two police cars involved were suspended, why wasn't officer Weiss? And he lied by failing to come forward! Some integrity ya got there!
ReplyDeleteI really need to ask this. Did you vote in the most recent Salisbury election? When is the last time that you cast a ballet in any Maryland election that you were entitled to? I didn't think so....
ReplyDelete827/847....Yep,..)
ReplyDeleteOk quick grammar lesson. Your-possessive, it belongs to you, it's yours. You're - means you are. There- location, it's over there. Their-possessive, it's theirs, it belongs to them.
ReplyDeletePS Male police officers can do a quick search on females waist and ankles,You don't think female cops do quick searches of males, same thing waist and ankles, until the same gender police officer shows up then they get A Full search.
ReplyDeleteThere is a HUGE problem in this town with idiots parking the wrong way speeding through school zones, aggressive driving, everyone on there cell, on on on...idiots from Philly/Bronx, Go back to your hell Holes.
ReplyDeleteApril 6, 2013 at 9:23 PM
If THAT'S all you have to complain about, you really shouldn't. How many laws do you break a day?
Today no one wants to take accountability for their actions. The cops are doing their jobs. Who cares why they stopped you.
ReplyDeleteApril 6, 2013 at 8:48 PM
How about lawyers, judges, the constitution, the bill of rights, people who respect(gag) the law and maybe an honest cop, IF you can find one.
You sound like one of the dumb cops we all have to suffer. Didn't War-Wic teach you anything? Or did you come straight from the military? Or are you just the average mentally and emotionally challenged asshole with a gun and badge?
ReplyDeleteAnon 8:31-interesting comment. Not a bad analogy-perhaps you should post under an AKA in the future.
Crime is bad in town, and folks like me are tired of it.
What should our police do-ignore violations in high crime areas at the risk of offending someone?
In tribute to a kindred soul I never met, AKA Transchoptankia
11:25 PM
ReplyDeleteThank you....I think.
Park the wrong way and the cops have reason to stop and check.. This is how they find things. Which they did.. An open container.. Doesn't matter who was drinking from it...it's illegal.. Black or white...would still be illegal. You never stated if you were smoking weed? And what makes you think a police officer can not search a female? Lol.. That's ridiculous.....
ReplyDelete11:03 Nope. I'm not a cop. I'm a concerned citizen. Concerned for the way our society is headed because of people like you who think that the constitution give you the right to be criminals and engage in criminal behavior.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the constitution affords us protections, it says nothing about parking the wrong way on a street, smoking weed, or having an open container of booze in the car.
Take your booze and weed to the projects and keep them off my street. Otherwise, you may not be dealing with the police, you may be dealing with the professional police force, you may be dealing with a real pissed off citizen trying to keep their community from slipping into the giant crack of idiots, criminals, and Fups that it is.
People like you make us, law abiding citizens, sick. You stand on your soapbox yelling at the top of your lungs for rights and that the cops abuse you, harass you, and stop you for racial reasons. First, you did something against the law, cops don't make laws, you parked the wrong way which is a parking violation. The cops smelled weed so you got searched. Big deal. Oh what an injustice!!
Suck it up and move on and stop being a tax on society. Get a job. We are tired of supporting your kind with SSI, housing, heath care, unemployment, independence cards,free power and water, and every other freebie that you take advantage of.
Go crawl back into your subsidized hole, smoke your weed, drink your booze, and keep complaining how "the man" keeps you down while we pay for your existence on this earth.
This article tell everyone the problem has with race. Joe can place article on everything going on in the country and have limited comments. However, when race is brought into the picture, the comments explodes. We have a seious race issue on the eastern shore. And, No organization can fix it. People just need to be honest with each other.
ReplyDeleteApril 7, 2013 at 8:49 AM
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are the one on a soap box. Professional police force my butt. Although the constitution affords us protections, it says nothing about parking the wrong way on a street, smoking weed, or having an open container of booze in the car. lmao. prima donna. You fups think this is real criminal behavior yet worse is walking around every day. But I guess that's all your professional force can handle. By the way, I'm not the one that was searched. I'm the one screaming about the abuses and other ridiculous things you lords of the jungle attempt. I have to go now but I look forward to another inane response from you later.
The police aren't just racist, but also likes to bully others to get money. I can say this since when I was driving they gave me a ticket when I stopped at a stop sign going to work while 3 people in front of me all Caucasian went without stopping and I got the ticket and the cop was Caucasian. I never knew that it was illegal to stop at a stop sign. Everyone knows that the police are only their to abuse their powers.
ReplyDeleteIm the one that wrote this post...I am white.. My Fiance is black.. I guess I should have made that clear? Anyway, there is not more to the story than written.. and If I wanted to make this a one sided story I would NOT have said that I parked the wrong way and had an open container is visible sight. I know what I did was wrong. Im just saying that it was wrong for the police to keep harassing him and not worry about me drinking and driving.. Am I not supposed to think that it was a racist act?? It has to be..because If he was driving I guarantee he would have went to jail for DUI.. so call it what you want, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.. And if the officers who were there would like to chime in.. feel free that way the people claming this story is one sided or missing info can know that the way its written, was the way it happend.
ReplyDelete8 49. I told you already im not a police officer. Tell you what, come to my street, drink in your car, and smoke weed.... the constitution doesnt protect you from a citizen, only the government. Ive been dying to put these tractor boots, i slave away in in the farm all day to pay for your independence card, upside a weed smoking, drunk, dumbass liberals head.
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