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Caron Nazario was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe home when two police officers pulled him over in Windsor, Virginia, whipped out their guns, and started barking orders.
With their weapons raised, the officers demanded that Nazario, a Black and Latino man, get out of the SUV. Nazario looked in the mirror and saw he was being held at gunpoint, then placed his cellphone on his dashboard to film the December 5 encounter. He repeatedly asked to know what was going on. At one point, he even admitted to being afraid to leave the vehicle. “Yeah, you should be,” one of the officers responded.
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actually they attacked him while he was still in the car by using pepper spray!
For some additional context... Windsor Police Officer Daniel Crocker radioed he was attempting to stop a vehicle with no rear license plate and tinted windows. He said the driver was “eluding police” and he considered it a “high-risk traffic stop,” according to a report he submitted afterward and which was included in the court filing.
Arthur said Nazario explained at the time that he wasn’t trying to elude the officer, but was trying to stop in a well-lit area “for officer safety and out of respect for the officers.”
Other then the over aggressiveness and unnecessary escalation by the police officers, the messed up thing is conflicting advice between what a lawyer would advise vs a police officer about pulling over in a well lit area at night.
Here is the advice of a VA Law Office:
No here is a former police officers response for the same question:
This basically puts citizens and more specifically black drivers in an impossible situation… kind of like when they said “keep both hands up..and unbuckle your seatbelt..” 🤦🏻♂️
Why?! Why not ask questions first? Why do they feel they need to restrain an individual first?