The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr declined to charge two Park Police officers in a 2017 shooting, but Virginia prosecutors want Merrick Garland's department to reconsider.
The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr declined to charge two Park Police officers in a 2017 shooting, but Virginia prosecutors want Merrick Garland's department to reconsider.
After Black woman s harrowing arrest, Virginia prosecutor says she shouldn t have been pulled over N dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY
Suit: Virginia police threatened man during stop
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Virginia state police pulled Juanisha Brooks car over in March. But that was just the beginning of an ongoing legal battle over a harrowing 10-hour ordeal that a local prosecutor says never should have happened.
Police say Brooks, 34, was pulled over because a trooper suspected she was driving under the influence. She was arrested and although she passed a breath test, she was charged with other violations and then forced to beg for help to finally get home.
Virginia Prosecutor Determines There Was No Basis for March Traffic Stop of Black Pentagon Employee, Drops All Charges
A Virginia prosecutor determined there was no legal basis for a March traffic stop that preceded a Black motorist’s arrest, and has called for an investigation into the incident.
The Washington Post reported Monday, May 10, that Fairfax Commonwealth attorney Steve Descano had dismissed all charges against 34-year-old Juanisha C. Brooks on April 16, and requested that the Virginia State Police open an internal affairs investigation.
A March traffic stop conducted by 49-year-old Virginia State police trooper Robert G. Hindenlang ended with Brooks facing four charges.
Racism.
That’s usually the answer to most questions involving the four sides of a square of fuckshit: a Black person, police, a Southern state and an arrest.
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Don’t make that face with me. I didn’t make the rules.
The truth is that the truth is sometimes just that simple. Sometimes police pull Black people over for little to no reason and then arrest them because they are fucked up people. There really isn’t more to it.
Such is the case with Juanisha C. Brooks, a Black Department of Defense employee with top secret security clearance, who was driving home March 6, when a Virginia State Police trooper (think regular cop but with that wide hat and more of an asshole), stopped her for her taillights being out. When Brooks asked Trooper Robert G. Hindenlang why he had pulled her over, he refused to tell her. The dashcam shows that instead of answering Brooks’ question, he tells her she can get outside and he’d show her. When Brooks said she didn’t want to