as a huge surprise given the well-established history inside trump world of pressuring potential witnesses in key investigations. washington post lays it out like this, quote. evidence across multiple state, federal and congressional investigations points to a similar pattern. trump and his close allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention extending vague assurances that staying loyal to trump would be better than crossing him. meanwhile, trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms offering a clear example to others of the consequences of stepping out of line. the new york times offers another view of this type of carrot and stick witness pressure campaign reporting this, quote, former president trump s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the january 6th attack, raising legal
i wonder what the human toll is of these very public pleas now for griner, and if it s having an impact. nicole, i think it has to have an impact. just the nature of human psychology and politics is that if brittney s case is on television and in the media, they know that in the white house. there was also a letter that was sent to the white house a week or two ago, signed by dozens of groups representing core democratic constituencies who have an interest in griner s freedom. and there s no way the white house can ignore that. but this goes to some of the most fundamental philosophical questions, you know, the old adage about whether you would flip a switch to divert a train that s about to run somebody over, and the train goes in another direction and it might, you know, hit two other people. philosophically, what do you do to free this person who is in
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?
pulled over, said momma, i m being pulled over, i said for what, because he had an air freshener in his rear view mirror. reporter: do you think that s a legitimate reason to pull someone over? no, to be pulled over for minor traffic stuff, it s systemic racism, a way for police officers to have a reasoning to pull somebody over, and it ends up in death or incarceration that doesn t need to have happen. reporter: once police learn wright had a warrant, they tried to arrest him. wright tried to flee. what were your hopes and dreams for dante? to get married one day, to watch him raise a son. to become successful.
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