Since when is it legal in this country to just ask someone walking down the street for their papers?
Since when is it legal in this country to just ask someone walking down the street for their papers? This is like some bad, through the looking glass, black and white, WWII or Cold War movie. Who the hell carries ID just to walk around their neighborhood?
I will say that they are apparently immediately addressing this in what sounds like an appropriate manner with retraining and educating the police and dispatchers, but the lead up to it is, uh, disturbing.
Pillalamarri told WJZ-TV Bel Air police officers demanded her ID after a resident called her in as suspicious.
Can we have an active drive to educate people against racism NOW?!? Because THIS IS RACIST.
“I had just come out for a walk, so I didn’t have my ID. And he said, ‘Why don’t you have ID? Are you here illegally?’” Pillalamarri said.
Why in the seven hells would that be the first question you would ask??? NOBODY CARRIES ID IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD.
Bel Air Police Chief Charles Moore said asking for her nationality is insensitive but not racial profiling.
With all due respect, exactly what is it, then? If the question is where you live, who cares what race you are or where you're from?
“They were trying to figure out why there was some hesitation to provide identification,” Moore said. “That’s why he asked if she was illegal.”
Oh, masculine cattle excrement. There is NO REASON to ask someone walking down the street for ID, nevermind if they are an illegal immigrant. They should not even have been sent on the call in the first place.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-police-question-us-citizen-immigration-status/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-police-question-us-citizen-immigration-status/
I will say that they are apparently immediately addressing this in what sounds like an appropriate manner with retraining and educating the police and dispatchers, but the lead up to it is, uh, disturbing.
Pillalamarri told WJZ-TV Bel Air police officers demanded her ID after a resident called her in as suspicious.
Can we have an active drive to educate people against racism NOW?!? Because THIS IS RACIST.
“I had just come out for a walk, so I didn’t have my ID. And he said, ‘Why don’t you have ID? Are you here illegally?’” Pillalamarri said.
Why in the seven hells would that be the first question you would ask??? NOBODY CARRIES ID IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD.
Bel Air Police Chief Charles Moore said asking for her nationality is insensitive but not racial profiling.
With all due respect, exactly what is it, then? If the question is where you live, who cares what race you are or where you're from?
“They were trying to figure out why there was some hesitation to provide identification,” Moore said. “That’s why he asked if she was illegal.”
Oh, masculine cattle excrement. There is NO REASON to ask someone walking down the street for ID, nevermind if they are an illegal immigrant. They should not even have been sent on the call in the first place.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-police-question-us-citizen-immigration-status/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-police-question-us-citizen-immigration-status/
In Arizona they can ask anyone for their papers.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, Bel Air is a richer neighborhood. So this is likely to be complete racial profiling from someone who believes that "I [sic] don't racially profile, I just know who belongs!"
Where belongs = white/light skinned.
Alistair Young She is a citizen, in this case, Alistair.
ReplyDelete(By the way, if you lose your card, the replacement is upwards of $400, yet guess who always carries it anyway.)
I just want to say that this is insane. You know, growing up, they used to make a huge point of stupid stuff that made us better than living behind the Iron Curtain. Like not having to have papers that could be demanded at any time without cause and without a warrant. I mean, I know W abrogated the 4th amendment with the assistance of Congress, but we are so close to a dystopia where they volunteer to chip us all "for your convenience" that I am really, really disturbed.
ReplyDelete..there's a reason why I never posted anything during my process, or in all my previous visa processes, about how the process makes one feel.
ReplyDeleteI'm not expecting you'd be aware of that, because, well, I never did say anything. But that's where Alistair is coming from, and me also. There's a reason why I used to joke "I like the IRS much more than the INS," back when they were called INS. The IRS has never been anything except friendly, I kid you not.
For all I know, we are required to have some form of national ID, now. It's just never mattered. The only reason I even think that is because of the fight over changing how states issue their driver's licenses. Which still doesn't matter since you need a passport to travel anywhere and get back into the US, so the only possible reason I can think of is that they are using them as national ID. If they are doing that, then presumably somewhere buried in that legislation is a technical you must have it on you at all times thing.
ReplyDeleteI've been upset with things ever since the Patriot Act and all the reactionary post-9/11 stuff. This is a whole 'nuther level of nasty. It's behaving as if we were in the middle of some terrible open war and until Trump and the Republicans pulled this stuff, we weren't, but I swear they are trying to start one.