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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
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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 from the ramp to the first side street and stopped.
There, Brooks repeatedly asked Virginia State Police Trooper Robert G. Hindenlang why he had pulled her over, and Hindenlang repeatedly refused to say, dashboard-camera video from the trooper s car shows. He did not tell her he had noticed her taillights were out as she drove. Instead, he told Brooks that if she would step outside, he would show her why she had been stopped. Brooks told the trooper she didn t want to get out.
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