A comment from the video site: (Wendy Jackson)
I think Mr. May had every right to feel the way he did. As you can clearly see, he did nothing wrong to warrant being pulled over. Some people are more aggressive than others and stand up for their selves and for what they believe in. Maybe he shouldn't have raised his voice, he apologized for that on Channel 3 News, but if you have never been in that same situation ( racially profiled ) then you can't say how you would act in the heat of the moment. I applaud him for standing up for his rights and asking for a Supervisor. As you can see, when the other Officers arrived he calmed down because he didn't have to deal with the Police Officer that racially profiled him anymore. I am a white woman, while driving by myself I have never been pulled over and I am 35 years old. While driving or riding with my husband who is black, we have been pulled over numerous times but never received a ticket or a citation. The excuses vary, "oh your tail light was out" we walk to the back of the car, tail light working fine. Pulled over again, " ma'am I pulled you over because I saw your passenger ( my husband ) drinking a beer" " Officer, my husband is drinking a monster energy drink ( black and green can, and my husband does not drink alcohol) " but you are more than welcome to search my vehicle if you think I am lying " Officer searches my vehicle and finds nothing but the monster energy drink. Pulled over again, at first the Officer would not tell me why he pulled us over, he asked for my license and registration and I gave it to him, he also asked for my husbands license. He ran everything and came back to the car and told us we were free to go and I asked several times why he had pulled us over to begin with and finally he said " well ma'am I pulled you over because I feel you were acting in a suspicious way by pulling into this store after I got behind you" " well sir, if you will notice my gas light is on so I figured it was a good time to stop and get gas regardless of who is behind me, I didn't realize it was illegal to pull into a store if an Officer is driving behind you " the Officers response " have a nice day ma'am " and walked off. I could go on and on those are just my favorite 3, and all 3 of those incidents were with the Pensacola Police Department. We have had 1 incident like that with the Escambia County Sheriffs Department. So needless to say, with the experiences I have had I can totally understand where Mr. May is coming from. I am not saying the whole Pensacola Police Department acts in that fashion, but the ones I came into contact with did. I still applaud and respect every Officer in the world that puts their lives on the line for us every day, but it would be nice if people weren't pulled over because of their skin color.
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In Victor Steen's case, the interracial protest that followed, mostly by Sluggo's patrons, some of whom had witnessed his death, was the first of its kind.
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When my granddaughter, who is racially mixed, was the victim of an attempted kidnapping at age 5, by a white man, age 61, some deputies at the Sheriff's office were, shall we say, less than cooperative, and her parents finally took the case to the State's Attorney, who only charged the creep with battery. Even the judge looked at him and said, "This is kidnapping." He received one year's probation. And then the story came out about the child sex ring, and I believe it was two sheriff's deputies who were involved in that. So tell me again about equal justice for minorities in Pensacola. Cops are not gods, (expletive withheld).