Playing the race card always pisses me off.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D – dumb ass) insists that “I’m not one of these people who cry racism.” However, that’s exactly what he’s doing after getting a traffic ticket for swerving over the center line.
Ill. Congressman Claims Racial Profiling
An Illinois congressman said he was a victim of racial profiling when police gave him a traffic ticket alleging he swerved over the center line.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who is black, said he will go to traffic court to challenge the $75 ticket given to him early Monday by two white officers.
“I’m not one of these people who cry racism,” Davis told The Associated Press on Friday. “I’m a person who believes in hard work and follows the rules.”
Davis, 66, said he was on his way home from co-hosting his Sunday late-night radio talk show, “Talking to the People,” and was driving with three black passengers when he was stopped.
“I know that I had not weaved. I mean, I’m not senile,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “Had I weaved, I would have said ‘I thought I saw a pothole,’ or a snake, or something.”
Interim Police Supt. Dana Starks said in a statement Thursday that the department “does not encourage, tolerate or condone racial profiling on any level.” He said Davis “was stopped on probable cause and issued a citation for violating a traffic law.”
“We assure the Congressman that any allegations of racial profiling will be thoroughly investigated and the Chicago Police Department remains committed to enforcing the law fairly and without bias,” Starks said.
