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Racism. That’s usually the answer to most questions involving the four sides of a square of fuckshit: a Black person, police, a Southern state and an arrest. Advertisement Don’t make that face with me. I didn’t make the rules. The truth is that the truth is sometimes just that simple. Sometimes police pull Black people over for little to no reason and then arrest them because they are fucked up people. There really isn’t more to it. Such is the case with Juanisha C. Brooks, a Black Depa...

Skip to main content After Black driver is handcuffed and arrested, Va. prosecutor says she never should have been pulled over Tom Jackman, The Washington Post May 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Early on March 6, Juanisha C. Brooks was driving home on the Capital Beltway when she saw the flashing lights of an emergency vehicle behind her. At first she thought it was an ambulance and she steered to the shoulder of an exit ramp to let it pass. Brooks soon realized she was being pulled over, drove...

Charges dropped for Black govt employee forcibly removed from car by police “Would he have done that to a White woman? No,” Juanisha C. Brooks said of the Virginia State trooper. “He didn’t see me as a human being." Loading the player... Criminal charges have been dropped against a Black government employee who was dragged out of her car during a traffic stop in March. It’s now been determined that a Virginia State Police trooper had no legal merit to detain Juanisha C. Brooks. Virgi...

Beltway Traffic Stop Prompts Call For Inquiry Into Police: Report Patch 6 days ago Mark Hand © Shutterstock Fairfax County’s commonwealth’s attorney is calling on the Virginia State Police to conduct an internal investigation into a traffic stop where a Black driver was ordered out of her car for having defective taillights, according to The Washington Post. FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — Fairfax County’s commonwealth’s attorney is calling on the Virginia State Police to co...

Prosecutor: No legal basis for trooper to stop Black woman May 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia state prosecutor determined that a state police trooper had no legal basis for pulling over a Black woman he later arrested, and has called for an internal police investigation, a newspaper reported Monday. Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano dismissed all charges against Juanisha C. Brooks, according to the report in The Washington Post. Brooks was pulled ov...