When street cops racially profile and handcuff a black FBI agent it's just not a very good look.

[Alex4Martinez]

To cops, one black suspect is as good as the next, apparently.

In two parts, from Rochester Minnesota:

First part:

Link to tweet

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The second half of this second clip show more of the exchange between the agent and the supervisor.

Link to tweet

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[mcar]

1. Kick!

[HAB911]

2. YES

[raging moderate]

3. Minnesota: Erase ALL North Star State insignia. Now.

You have forfeited that proud title.

[pazzyanne]

36. Sorry, no!

I'm not relinquishing my state slogan because of a few idiots. Happy to say that police policies are under review and revision.

[ElementaryPenguin]

4. The resolution was a thing of beauty!!!

[Johnny2X2X]

5. That was amazing

The agent had every reason to treat them like he did, but he'll actually likely be reprimanded for acting unprofessional, because the FBI has very high standards.

The police had no right to put their hands on him or detain him. None.

[KS Toronado]

20. He does seem unprofessional for an FBI agent

Wonder if it's because of his undercover training looking for drug dealers, he was just staying in character.

[MrModerate]

40. Agreed on the agent's unprofessional behavior, but ...

The cops refused to say why they were detaining him. He was within his rights to just walk away.

At which point they would have shot him down like a dog, of course.

[grantcart]

47. Not an FBI agent, mistaken identity

[oasis]

6. The powerful police union will get these racist cops off with three things.

A "warning", a wink, and, a nod.

[geardaddy]

32. Yep, Fuck Bob Kroll.

[oasis]

34. When police union presidents didplay white power patches they

know what kind of message they send to the force.

[pazzyanne]

37. +1000.

[The Blue Flower]

7. Did that supervisor say the FBI agent couldn't have their cards?

nt

[Merlot]

19. That's what it sounded like.

[spudspud]

21. Yep, that's what I heard. /nt

[SCantiGOP]

26. You don't need cards

Name and/or badge number, especially on a cellphone picture, is all you need.

[pazzyanne]

38. This. nt

[AlexSFCA]

33. was he on duty?

nevermind. The video is fake. There is some powerful disinformation going on online. We gotta watch out.

[jayfish]

43. What About The Video Is Fake? -NT-

[PTWB]

45. The video is fake?? Link to something backing that up.

[onetexan]

8. I could not hear what the supervising cop was saying

Can anybody make out what was said? I also did not hear any response from the 2 dunces who proceeded to arrest this FBI agent. Shameful behavior on their part - arreetibg a black man for no good reason. but of course it doesnt surprise us.

[Native]

9. Over a year old and not an FBI agent. Pull up the tweet & read the posts.

[Laelth]

16. Thank you for this comment. n/t

-Laelth

[llashram]

27. I don't care

if this video is 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years old. Has happened before in these great again United States and guaranteed, it will continue. You just don't get it.

[Native]

53. I get it. Totally.

[Eliot Rosewater]

54. Couldn't agree more...

[onecaliberal]

30. It's harassment and demonstrates that it's been

Ongoing. People are fed up. Idgaf when it was.

[tblue37]

10. Could you summarize his comments for us deafies, please? Thanks. nt

[tblue37]

12. Also, could someone summarize the exchange in the first video for us deafies? Thanks. nt

[LAS14]

15. I second the request. Although I certainly did hear the line about them...

... being the stupidest MFs. Yup!!

[irisblue]

11. A very good chance this a fake

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13519310

[cayugafalls]

48. Not fake but not FBI. Mistaken identity and a year old video.

Full source Video taken by his friend.

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

13. ROFL.

Those two white cops are the stupidest MFs on the force, for sure.

They're thinking: "Now way is this guy anyone. We can do whatever we want to the dumb .... Oh, wait.. FBI? WTF? Who knew the FBI hired black guys. Shit!"

[LAS14]

14. Wonderful that someone shot the video!!! I hope everyone with access to videos sees it!!! nt

[sarge43]

17. In 5, 4, 3 ....

"He was looking at us. We felt threaten!!"

snowflakes.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. Holy crap!

Damn, that's just obscene profiling!

[Raven123]

22. Some comments indicate the video is of an FBI imposter. If true I hope this post is deleted.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. I'm now reading it was mistaken identity.

It happened to me in the past. I showed the cop my ID immediately, as he asked, and that was the end of it.

It was pretty ridiculous in my case too. Apparently some white teenager over a mile away had broke a car's windshield. The cop patrolled the area and saw me (a middle-aged white man who worked 2nd shift) sitting outside my apartment after work, smoking a cigarette.

[SCantiGOP]

23. Feel good clip of the year

I love how he played them..

[C Moon]

24. Love this!

"You're the stupidest ### I ever met."

[malaise]

25. Fucking racists

[Grins]

28. I wonder if the police had a moment like this....

Police Chief: And meanwhile, you killed yourself a white man and picked yourself up a little money!
Suspect: I earned that money. Ten hours a day, seven days a week.
Chief: Coloured can't earn that. It’s more than I make in a month! Where did you earn it?!
Suspect: Philadelphia.
Chief Gillespie: Mississippi?
Suspect: Pennsylvania.
Chief: Just how do you earn that kinda' money?
Virgil Tibbs: I'm a police officer!



NB: For the younger set, from the movie "In the Heat of the Night", Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, 1967.

[samsingh]

29. kick

[rocktivity]

35. When they said he was an FBI agent

He's lucky they didn't put him under that 3-day psychological arrest.

rocktivity

[marieo1]

39. Sad state of affairs

I love it - they wouldn't even let him talk and for darn sure they wouldn't listen. They didn't care who he was - they had all the power and then finally one of the PD looked in his wallet found out he was an FBI agent. Imagine if he hadn't been FBI what would've happened.

[SKKY]

44. There are sooooo many different ways this could have been handled..

...yet, no, they gotta take door #3 to stupid.

[cayugafalls]

46. Here is the full source video, you decide. Mistaken identity at best.

Racial profiling, maybe. AT no time does anyone say FBI.

Link to tweet

Edited to add: According to source it was taken a year ago and this is his friend.

[Alex4Martinez]

49. Thanks, been trying to track down the source. It's police profiling either way.

I can't find proof that he is or that he is not an agent so that possibility seems to still exist but seems less likely than when posted.

It would seem that checking his ID let them to release him from cuffs. Why? I don't think we know, maybe the ID proved that he wasn't the suspected warrant violator.

Full video link to the 5 minute youtube thanks to your reply:

[cayugafalls]

51. At 3:13-3:15 he says, "I'm the people" in response to the supervisor.

I zoomed the wallet and it appeared to be standard ID card only. There was no gold badge in the wallet.

At some point, if he were FBI or DEA, he would have said so...imo.

As to why they released him? They were on a specific mission to arrest with a warrant. If a name does not match the warrant they have no right to arrest.

[Blue_Tires]

50. LOL at that!

[Brother Buzz]

52. Shades of Beverly Hills Cop

That dude was riffing Detective Axel Foley.