Some of those judges had been waiting to see what the Supreme Court would do. The court’s instruction Monday was: Proceed.
Technically, the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t dictate how those lower court cases should come out. But it also sends a signal that’s hard for lower court judges to ignore. “It’s inevitable that judges on lower courts will be thinking about what this means,” said University of Michigan law professor Sam Bagenstos. “Lower court judges hate to be reversed. They’re always trying to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and I’d be shocked if they aren’t taking this into account.”
Police chief calls for church leaders to âapologize or be terminatedâ for ârace baitingâ
An officer speaks with a man identified only as Mr. Hoffman.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Charlottesville Police Department
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Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney called for the leaders of a local church who accused officers of racial profiling in October to âapologize or to be terminated,â saying their actions were ârace baiting.â
The call came during a news conference Thursday in which Brackney played portions of body-worn camera footage that she said refuted allegations laid by the Unitarian Universalist Church and its reverend, Linda Olson Peebles.
Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney refuted claims of racial profiling made by leaders of the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville Church following an October incident and called on the churchâs leadership to apologize or be terminated during a press conference Thursday.
The press conference followed an internal affairs investigation conducted by the police department after the church published a letter addressed to Brackney on Oct. 15 detailing allegations of racial profiling against one of its members.
According to the letter, which was written by the Rev. Linda Olson Peebles and signed by various church members, a congregant was surrounded by police while walking to church on Oct. 7 after the city police received a call from a University of Virginia student.
Charlottesville police refute racial profiling allegations, release body camera footage A frame of the body camera footage of the October 7 encounter on Rugby Road. (Source: Charlottesville Police Department) By Max Marcilla | December 10, 2020 at 7:42 PM EST - Updated December 11 at 5:17 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney is asking a city church minister to apologize. The minister sent a letter that circulated on social media accusing CPD of racially profiling a church member in October sparking widespread criticism, but Brackney says it is not true.
In a press conference Thursday, Brackney called the letter race-baiting and provided redacted body camera footage of the encounter. She said police responded to a 911 call, and the man was not stopped or surrounded as claimed.
Sandy Hausman has that story.
The trouble started October 7th when a black man named Walter Hoffman was on his way to the Unitarian Church where he was a member. Hoffman reportedly cut through a resident’s yard, walking on a private sidewalk and driveway, prompting a call to 911. A young woman – aware that there had been several burglaries in the area – reported a black man, who had previously broken into her neighbor’s house, was loitering nearby. She told the dispatcher the man was dressed in brown.
A few minutes later, a patrolman looking for that suspect reported being flagged down by a black man wearing a brown shirt.