2002. why do you think your son was stopped so many times? because he was black. because he was black. i mean, nobody can be that unlucky. and nobody is that horrible of a driver. it wasn t he ran a stop sign or was in a car accident, it s none of that. it s what they call now pretext stops. for the most part, equipment violations are used as a pretext to pull somebody over, tends to be people on the poor side of town, often times with minorities, those are stops where the officer first decided they wanted to have a conversation with the driver, and second, figured out a way to pull them over. and when you say conversation, you re talking about an investigation. a conversation goes like this. do you know why i pulled you over? no, sir, i have no idea. you made an illegal right turn. i did. yes, sir, you have any guns in the car, carrying any drugs, do you mind if i search the car?
driver. it wasn t he ran a stop sign or in a car accident. it s none of that. it s what they call now pretext stop. for the most part, equipment violations are often used as a pretext to pull somebody over, tends to be people on the poor side of town, often times it s minister. those are stops where the officer first decided that they want to have a conversation with the driver. and second figured out a way to pull him over. when you say conversation you re talking about an investigation. a conversation goes like this. do you know why i pulled you over? knows, i have no idea. you made an illegal right turn. i did? yes, sir do you have any guns in the car are you carryingny drugs? do you mind if i search the car? police officials tell us pretextual traffic stops became a common tool used by follows to search for drugs and guns. and in 1996 the supreme court ruled it did not violate the