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TexasTowelie

(117,472 posts) Tue Aug 30, 2016, 12:22 AM Aug 2016

Woman gets jail time in 'driving while black' case

LINCOLN -- A judge on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old Illinois woman to seven days in jail for failing to obey a lawful order last year.

Alicia Campbell was driving near 91st Street and Nebraska 2 when Trooper Kyle Gress stopped her for going 79 mph in a 65 mph zone.

Campbell is the fiancée of Devin James, who wrote a book about unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 shooting of a young black man by police. James is the CEO of the Devin James Group and travels the country training law enforcement agencies on bias-free, colorblind and community-conscious policing.

James, a passenger in the car on Aug. 27, 2015, said they were stopped outside of Lincoln for “driving while black.”

Read more: http://journalstar.com/news/local/911/woman-gets-jail-time-in-driving-while-black-case/article_6018d42c-c89a-523a-9aed-becb0e04f171.html

Cross-posted in the Nebraska Group.

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It looks like she was stopped for doing almost 80 in a 65... TreasonousBastard Aug 2016 #2

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2. It looks like she was stopped for doing almost 80 in a 65...

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Tue Aug 30, 2016, 01:57 AM

Aug 2016

and the copcam seemed to show some altercation. Unless a whole bunch of white people flew by the cop doing 80 and he did nothing, sounds like driving while speeding.

And even us white folks don't argue with a cop over a traffic stop. That just gives him an excuse to find your bong under the seat and give you more grief.

This guy trains cops on how to avoid DWB?

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