State sues Virginia town over 'discriminatory' police practices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... -virginia/
Virginia’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking a court-ordered monitor for the police force in the small town of Windsor, in the Hampton Roads area, where a Black military officer was subjected to a violent traffic stop that sparked outrage after video of the incident became public last spring.
The lawsuit follows a months-long inquiry in which Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) said his office found a pattern of discriminatory behavior by Windsor police, including excessive traffic stops of African Americans, in violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act and the Virginia Public Integrity and Law Enforcement Misconduct Act.
The legal action, filed in state court, comes a year after Army Lt. Caron Nazario, wearing his military fatigues, was held at gunpoint, struck, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed by Windsor police after they stopped him on Dec. 5, 2020, because his newly purchased SUV lacked permanent license plates. He said a temporary tag was taped to a window.
When Nazario told officers that he was “honestly afraid to get out” of his SUV, one of them replied, “Yeah, you should be!”
While it appears that the tide is turning much more needs to be done in order to end government police tyranny in the inner cities. Legislation such as this is one small step in that direction. Minneapolis took another step by ordering all those needless race based police stoppages of motorists. Still more can be done by ending qualified immunity and by throwing all the criminal cops who spread drugs and molest the public with their endless harassment and criminality into jail where they belong. De-criminalization of drugs in another constructive step that is essential.
For too long the USA has wasted its money and resources on so called human rights violations in China, or Cuba, or elsewhere while conveniently ignoring such crimes in fascist countries. It needlessly frets about the Russia-Ukraine border. Well, none of that is any of our business. Indeed, our business is to solve all domestic problems. Not problems overseas.