The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed

[RamboLiberal]

She was a 27-year-old black woman, driving home to North Carolina from New York where she had gone to pick up $10,000 from a friend's brother; the brother, who owned a car dealership, had agreed to stake Stubbs' dream of opening a restaurant.

Stubbs was pulled over by a New Jersey state trooper who claimed her front wheel was wobbling. She told him she had a spare.

He asked to search her vehicle. The trooper did his search and found the brown paper bag full of cash.

``You know you're going to jail for this,'' he told her.

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(She was released without charges)


But troopers still kept the cash. If Stubbs wanted it back, they told her, she'd have to hire a lawyer and prove it wasn't drug money.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/29/1847463/justice-for-all-not-quite-yet.html#ixzz112iNVid7

Product Description
In a fast-paced true story that reads like a novel, The Black Dragon: Racial Profiling Exposed is a "passionate and much-needed account of the struggle to put an end to police profiling on the New Jersey Turnpike," according to Professor Frank Askin, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Rutgers Law School/Newark. "From the case of the long-haired travelers in the '70s through legal efforts to halt racial profiling in the '90s and beyond, Joseph Collum has made a major contribution to the protection and advancement of civil rights in New Jersey and the country as a whole."

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Dragon-Racial-Profiling-Exposed/dp/1934340774/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285874514&sr=8-1

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. kick!

I remember the idiot Larry Elder (black rightwing radio host) claiming racial profiling didn't exist on the NJ turnpike. Then the NJ cops admitted that's exactly what they were doing.

[SheilaT]

2. Racial profiling is wrong, wrong, wrong,

but I'm wondering why anyone would be carrying $10,000 in cash when banks exits. A Cashier's check would be a good idea.

As for proving it's not drug money, can't she get the friend who gave it to here give an affidavit to that effect?

I suspect that this publicity will make the police give up the money.

[Jim__]

3. The other issue here is the complete constitutional violation of seizure of property with no ...

... due process. I know the Rehnquist court approved this; but it is an obvious violation of the constitution. We need to fight for our rights. This kind of shit should not be tolerated.