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Dorothy Bland is the dean of the school of journalism, at the University of Northern Texas. She was walking down the wrong side of a main street in her upper middle class neighborhood one day, while flailing her arms around above her head, and acting oblivious to traffic. There were sidewalks available as well. She was wearing a hood, as it was apparently lightly raining, which from behind would make it difficult to determine her race. A police cruiser followed her shortly, then stopped, and the 2 officers politely informed her that she should be walking on the other side(or the sidewalk), and that her seemingly oblivious manner of walking was potentially putting her at risk. As always, they asked her for her ID, and immediately she began commenting about how she was being treated unfairly etc, despite not being searched, handcuffed, charged or arrested. After a short time, they leave.
Then, she writes an article for the Dallas Morning News, titled, "Walking While Black", where she fabricated claims that she was suddenly startled by "lights and sirens" from the police car, as she was stopped. She said the officers were "threatening", they compared her to a dog, and how she was afraid for her life, because they were taller than her, had guns, and because she remembered Trayvon Martin. She claimed she asked repeatedly why they stopped her, but was never given a decent answer.
Problem was, the police were equipped with audio & video, and they later released the footage, which literally contradicted every claim she made! Then once exposed, she said that she didn't want to be in the public eye(despite the fact that SHE PUT HERSELF THERE, by authoring an article in a major newspaper)! This whole incident further explains why so many journalism students are indoctrinated into radical progressive politics, by people like her, and end up becoming ideological activists instead of honest, objective journalists.
Here's the police video with some narration, and another article explaining why it doesn't help race relations when politically motivated people in positions of authority 'cry wolf', by making up false claims of racism, although ALL of us SHOULD already understand that.....
https://leesomniac.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/crying-wolf-people-who-lie-like-dorothy-bland-hurt-race-relations/
I won't comment on her written article, but it very much seems to me the cops intentionally decided to check her out, and I.D. her. For no reason, that I can see. I'd be a bit pissed, myself.
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Problem was, the police were equipped with audio & video, and they later released the footage, which literally contradicted every claim she made! Then once exposed, she said that she didn't want to be in the public eye(despite the fact that SHE PUT HERSELF THERE, by authoring an article in a major newspaper)! This whole incident further explains why so many journalism students are indoctrinated into radical progressive politics, by people like her, and end up becoming ideological activists instead of honest, objective journalists.
Here's the police video with some narration, and another article explaining why it doesn't help race relations when politically motivated people in positions of authority 'cry wolf', by making up false claims of racism, although ALL of us SHOULD already understand that.....
https://leesomniac.wordpress.com/20...o-lie-like-dorothy-bland-hurt-race-relations/
flailing her arms around above her head, and acting oblivious to traffic
She was wearing a hood, as it was apparently lightly raining, which from behind would make it difficult to determine her race.
Ms. Bland had been observed earlier by these same officers, but she was not in the street and impeding traffic, so she was not contacted.
A police cruiser followed her shortly, then stopped, and the 2 officers politely informed her that she should be walking on the other side(or the sidewalk), and that her seemingly oblivious manner of walking
As always, they asked her for her ID, and immediately she began commenting about how she was being treated unfairly etc
she fabricated claims that she was suddenly startled by "lights and sirens" from the police car
She said the officers were "threatening"
they compared her to a dog,
I guess I was simply a brown face in an affluent neighborhood. I told the police I didn’t like to walk in the rain, and one of them told me, “My dog doesn’t like to walk in the rain.” Ouch!
the footage, which literally contradicted every claim she made!
she said that she didn't want to be in the public eye
I don't know about the bolded, but I do agree with the rest.And prohibited by SCOTUS but I guess the right gets to selectively observe the law. YES...the right.
No life. limb or property was threatened and thus to stop and ask for ID is harassment.
She had a much or greater right to feel threatened with two armed white men, then police do when confronting
an unarmed black man.
Why is the OP posting something from 2015?
I won't comment on her written article, but it very much seems to me the cops intentionally decided to check her out, and I.D. her. For no reason, that I can see. I'd be a bit pissed, myself.
So they were concerned for her safety. Why have to ask for ID? Why didn't they just advise her and drive away?
I haven't much to say about her penning her articles, but it does seem to me the cops hassled her. Minor league, but still. It's clear to me their interest was in I.D.'ing her & running her (for warrants). Trouble is, we now put up with this crap as it being fine.They intentionally checked her out because she was walking in the street (illegal) not on the sidewalk while flailing her arms. People on drugs to that and get themselves hurt. I gather you won't comment on the article because the video proves she was completely lying in the article.
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