Ohio Cop Pulls Black Man Over for "Making Direct Eye Contact"

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Former Ohio resident John Felton was pulled over by Dayton police in front of his mom’s house after he allegedly activated his turn signal less than 100 feet before making a right turn. Unable to believe an officer would stop him on such a piddling technicality, Felton asked the officer why he was really followed for several blocks and eventually pulled over.

“Because you made direct eye contact with me and held onto it when I was passing you,” the officer responded.

When Felton attempted to protest, the officer told him to end the discussion or face a citation for the not-quite-missed turn signal.

Felton is black.

Felton provided video of the stop, showing the officer’s ridiculous excuse for pulling him over, to the David Pakman Show.

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Felton claims he didn’t even make the alleged eye contact with the cop.

“What?! I didn’t even see you,” you can hear him say in the video.

Felton believes he was stopped for being a black man with out-of-state plates—he now lives in Michigan.

http://gawker.com/ohio-cop-pulls-black-man-over-for-making-direct-eye-co-1727244337

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Beat me by one minute. I must be slowing down in my old age.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Oh good Christ.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Noted, never look a cop in the eye and look them in the eye. Either way, you're screwed. You're suspicious for doing both. So what do you do in situations like this?

He trailed this guy for 2 freaking miles. That must have been darn scary.

Like I said, I make it a point to put my hands up in the air when I am pulled over by a cop.

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This has happened to me twice. Once when I looked at two police passing in the opposite direction. They did a U-turn and pulled me over. The second time, a passenger in the back seat looked at the cop and he turned around and pulled us over.

[Expat1 971]

In related news:

Flanagan displayed traits of what a former FBI profiler calls "an injustice collector," someone who blames others for their problems, asserts nothing is their fault and contends everyone is insulting them even when it's not true, but Flanagan seems to have been a dangerous kind of injustice collector, because he showed aggression and made threats, said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a psychologist and a former FBI agent for 28 years who worked in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.

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In related news:

Flanagan displayed traits of what a former FBI profiler calls "an injustice collector," someone who blames others for their problems, asserts nothing is their fault and contends everyone is insulting them even when it's not true, but Flanagan seems to have been a dangerous kind of injustice collector, because he showed aggression and made threats, said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a psychologist and a former FBI agent for 28 years who worked in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.

How is that related?

[Expat1 971]

How is that related?

It is related because whining about being pulled over and blaming being pulled over on an officer's racism is a form of injustice collection. It's pathetic to watch actually (since you asked).

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It is related because whining about being pulled over and blaming being pulled over on an officer's racism is a form of injustice collection. It's pathetic to watch actually (since you asked).

So, being pulled over for direct eye contact, is that a normal thing?

If you think it's pathetic to watch, why are you in this thread?

Edited August 28, 2015 by Stay Woke

[Expat1 971]

So, being pulled over for direct eye contact, is that a normal thing?

If you think it's pathetic to watch, why are you in this thread?

No, It is not normal to be pulled over and imagine that looking at the officer must have been the reason for it because it happened to someone else months or years later,

[Neonred 3,569]

Like I said, I make it a point to put my hands up in the air when I am pulled over by a cop.

Hands up, don't shoot, or is it now eyes up don't shoot?

Edited August 29, 2015 by Neonred

[decocker 7,198]

It is related because whining about being pulled over and blaming being pulled over on an officer's racism is a form of injustice collection. It's pathetic to watch actually (since you asked).

i can tell you're going to spend a great deal of time overusing the term 'injustice collecting'

also about injustice collecting..

Remember, we're the descendants of humans who needed their fair share of resources, rewards, credit, and carcasses. It therefore behooves us to be hypervigilant in separating the free rider or cheater from someone who deserves the benefit of the doubt. That's why injustice collecting errs on the side of suspicion: Natural selection favors the less costly error, and in the ancestral environment it was likely better to rebuff a well-intentioned person than to trust someone who might swindle us out of home and hut.

seems to me like anyone who constantly feels the need to judge the merit of another's perceived injustice falling into the same pattern.

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i can tell you're going to spend a great deal of time overusing the term 'injustice collecting'

also about injustice collecting..

seems to me like anyone who constantly feels the need to judge the merit of another's perceived injustice falling into the same pattern.

The newness is already wearing off.

The pathetic grasping of one does not necessarily impose injustice on the other. Your analogy is a bit of a fail.

[decocker 7,198]

The newness is already wearing off.

The pathetic grasping of one does not necessarily impose injustice on the other. Your analogy is a bit of a fail.

new to you, i suppose.

blame psychology today..

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