i think you look guilty. get out the kaer. that gets dismissed is searching. it s an aggressive search why they check between the butt cheeks. underneath the testicles to see if you have drugs there and then put me in the back of the car looking for guns and drugs. somebody called in for another crime and ended up letting me out of the car and speeding off. i m a working man with a college degree that didn t do anything wrong. what it does to pride and self esteem in the moment. like you can t get that back. reporter: his experiences and the experiences of his friends led him to push for the driving equality bill that passed in november and goes into effect in 2022. looking for 100,000 less traffic stops a year. reporter: he says the stops
have drugs there. then put me in hand cuffs and the back of the car, and searched the entire car looking for guns and drugs. somebody called in for another crime and ended up letting me out of the car and just speeding off. mind you, i m a working man with a college degree who didn t do anything wrong, i mean what it does to your pride and self-esteem in the moment, like you just can t get that back. reporter: his experiences and the experiences of his friends led him to push for the driving equality bill which goes into effect in early 2022. we re looking at, hopefully, around 100,000 less traffic stops a year. reporter: that s important to thomas, because he says those stops take a large toll on black drivers, with a very small, nearly nonexistent return for the city. we know that in the city of philadelphia, the year we examine over 300,000 motor vehicle cold stops, less than 1%
out of the car and just speeding off. my, i m a working man with a college degree, who didn t do anything wrong, i mean what it does to your pride and self-esteem in the moment you just can t get that back. reporter: his experiences, and the experiences of his friends led him to push for the driving equality bill which passed in november, and goes into effect in early 2022. we re looking at hopefully, around 100,000 less traffic stops a year. reporter: that s important to thomas because he says those stops take a large toll on black drivers with a very small, nearly nonexistent return for the city. we know that in the city of philadelphia, less than 1% of the time, in a year that we examine over 300,000 motor vehicle cold stops, less than 1% of the time did that stop and that search lead to some type of contraband or illegal weapon. reporter: that figure comes from the defender association in
what it does to pride and self-esteem in the moment, you just can t get that back. his experiences and the experiences of his friends led him to push for the driving equality bill, which goes into effect in early 2022. we re looking at hopefully around 100,000 less traffic stops a year. that s important to thomas, because he says those stops take a large toll on black drivers with the very small nearly non-existent return for the city. we know that in a city of philadelphia, the year where we examined over 300,000 motor vehicle stops, less than 1% of the time did that stop and that search lead to some type of contraband or illegal weapon. that figure comes from the defender association in philadelphia, a city dealing with a rise in violent crime. i will tell you, this is not ideal timing. philadelphia s police comm
conversation and how does it go especially coming the covid vaccine? it s vital. quite literally. our lives depend on the tough conversations and the show was inspired by a close friend having difficult conversations with her mom about the on set of covid at the beginning of 2019 and her exhibited behavior that put her at risk and having to have these really har conversation with my friends led to think this has to be happening in millions of homes right now. it has to be happening because so many of us are first and second generations and bridging that information for our parents and we launched the show in two weeks because we knew it was urgent to get the conversations going and will not run out of things to talk about honestly.