Furor Over S.C. Trooper Racism Forces Resignations
March 3rd, 2008The state’s Black lawmakers say they were shocked to see the videotape.
South Carolina’s No. 1 safety official and its top cop were forced to hand in their resignations to the governor Friday after African-American members of the state Legislature got hold of a 4-year-old videotape from a police cruiser showing a White officer using the “N”-word during a traffic stop and threatening to kill a Black suspect after a gun was found in his car. In 2004, South Carolina Department of Public Safety Director James Schweitzer and Highway Patrol Colonel Russell Roark reprimanded the officer by suspending him for 12 hours and making him take training in diversity and anger management. When challenged at the time for the seemingly light punishment, Schweitzer said, “I’ve made hundreds and hundreds of decisions in the last four years” and that he was sticking with the penalty. Representative Leon Howard, of the State Legislative Black Caucus, told Hatzel Zela of Live 5 News in Charleston, “When that trooper said, you better run ‘N,’ because I’m fixing to kill you. I really couldn’t sleep for days. I just couldn’t believe South Carolina would have anyone working in our law enforcement with that type of mentality. That type of behavior will not be tolerated. Our citizens will not be disrespected. They’re there to protect the citizens and not harass the citizens.” By the way, the trooper is still working as a highway patrolman. Should they have been forced to resign?
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of course they should be fired. I would have been fired for doing a lot less. This type of attitude should not be tolerated. Even if it was a black officer who made the comments
Why are they keeping his name private???
You know, I read this and feel for the victims involved. But REALITY is, rasism will never stop. So what can you, I, we, do to stop it. NOTHING.
Don’t call me hopeless though, this is just life and I come to accept things for what they are. But don’t get it twisted, of course I want justice.
Yes they should have resigned. The person this happen to should file charges against this cop that did this to him. They suspended kids from school for telling fellowing students they are going to kill them so a person thats suppose to protect all and responds like that to a citizen is subject to the law. How can he( the cop) serve the public at all being biased against Black Americans when we are a part of America as much as anyone else. We are inventors, scholars,mothers, daughter fathers, sons, and so much more. With the spin of bad media since ever blacks are looked at as criminals and no good. We are looked at as guilty and not innocent. This is how the cop looked at this guy and probably all black people , probably all minorites so they call us anyway. Propaganda! I say Justice. Prosecute them just like they love doing us. Make an example out of them.
Many want to believe that racism doesn’t exist, we know in our heart that it does, but there is no end in sight but we can overcome it. It only shows signs of our progression and some of their needs for our possessions, our strength, our pride and our tolerance. Some may not count us, but they will never be able to count us out.
Life Power!!!!
Let me ask you all a question? What do you think BET only puts stuff like this on this website?
Instead of REAL issues and real concerns?
BET IS NO LONGER BLACK OWNED !!!
We know WHITE THINGS will NEVER change …YOU CAN NOT CHANGE WHO YOU ARE BY NATURE !! WE NEED TO CHANGE …WE NEED TO STOP CONTRUBUTING TO OUR OWN DEMISE BY BEING A PART OF THEIR LIFESTYLE AND THINKING.
To the White BET owners …you don’t need to tell us EVERYDAY how evil you are …we already know. You don’t need to continue to spread dispare to us by trying to daily let it be known you think we should stay in FEAR of you and your doings …tell that to you people …if thats what you are.
Should they have been forced to resign?
Should this question even be asked?
tw, so true. It’s as if they are compiling info to our feelings and strengths and they will act upon that data.
BY LETTING THEM RESIGN. THEY CAN GO AND GET A JOB THE SAME DAY IN THE NEXT COUNTY OR STATE NO PROBLEM THIS IS SAD…BUT AS BLACK WE ARE FIRED AND WHITE GET TO RESIGN AND KEEP THERE GOOD NAME….JOKE…ARE YOU TRUELY FREE
this is a out rage when will it stop why are we as blacks hated so much what have we done nothing. its 2 many haters aganist us blacks and it’s sad when your own kind hates you!
Here we are ONCE AGAIN. ONCE AGAIN a WHITE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER somewhere in America has ONCE AGAIN displayed hateful, aggressive, violent behavior towards a person of color and ONCE AGAIN the WHITE AUTHORITY OFFICIALS responsible to deal it decide ONCE AGAIN that it’s not big a deal. So ONCE AGAIN it will be in the news for a few days until the Grammy Awards or a new movie by Denzel or Obama says something quote worthy and ONCE AGAIN we will be diverted to another entertaining topic until ONCE AGAIN another WHITE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER decides to do it…ONCE AGAIN!
These types of injustice need to be brought to the worlds attention not just S.C. If you did something or said something that was hateful you would disappear. This is sad. You will never hear about this on National TV
I’m not surprise in South Carolina. They still have a flag that shows we as black american are not wanted.
The police and the lawmakers including the judges are KKK members and they are not in the interest of Black people. You put down your defenses and weapons too fast to people you know are out to kill you, your kids and your thought of freedom but you will not trust in a GOD that will help you have the courage to see them as who they are–killers, murderers, the devil, heartless people and “white people”. After that you know what to do. GET EVEN.
TELL U THE TRUTH I TOUGHT ALL THIS HAD STOP ALREADY ALL THIS RAICST GOT TO STOP WE R FREE AND WE DOING OUR OWN THING NOW AND ALL SO IT LIKES OF BLACKS AND WHITE R DATING AND THEY R HAPPY..ONE THEY DO NEED TO BE FIRED CAUSE THATS NOT CALL FOR WAT THEY DOING AND THEY HAVING LEARN YET FOR FIRST I MILLION TIME WHEN THEY TREAT THAT PREGANT WRONG AND RODNEY KING AND SO OWN. WE POST TO BE EQUAL AS ONE… GOD DIDNT BRING US HERE TO HATE HE SEND US TO GET ALONG AND KNOW ONE OF ANOTHER AND TEACH OUR KIDS THE RIGHT WAY AND LET OUR KIDS GET ALONG AND TO BE FRIENDS…OUR KIDS DONT WANT TO SEE THAT OR HEAR ABOUT STUFF LIKE RAICST AND SO ON. IT GOING TO BE TIME OUR KIDS CANT TRUST POLICE ANY MORE CAUSE THEY GOING TO BE AFAIRD TO GO TO THEM..CAUSE IT DONT MAKE ANY SINCE AT ALL. IT SEEM LIKE THIS WHITE COP’S DO WATEVER THEY LIKE AND THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH I THATS NOT FAIR AT. NW IF WE DO IT THEY WILL FIRED THEM IN A HURT BEAT….THATS SAD THAT WE CANT TRUST THEM AT ALL THEY NEED TO PUT A STOP TO IT FAST BEFORE SOMEBODY GET HURT AGAIN. JUST LIKE THESE BOYS IN FORT LAUDERDALE THEY GOT SHOT BY COPS AND AND NOTHER GUY HE WAS KIILED AND ANOTHER ONE HE JUST OUTSIDE WAITING FOR HE CLOTHES FINISH AND POLICE THAT HE WAS DOING SOMETHIN WRONG AND HE WAS HE JUST STANDING OR WALK AND THE COP START BOTHER HIM AND KILLED HIM AND THE BOY BROTHER SAY THEY THOUGH HE HAD GUN ON HIM AND HE SHOT AND KILL THE BOY FOR NOTHING THATS SAID AND THEY TAKING IT TO FALL NOW IT’S LIKE ITS WAT TO THEM THEY GOING TO DO WAT THEY WANT CAUSE THEY GOT A BAGDGE. THIS NEED TO STOP CAUSE ITS TO MANY YOUNG BLACK MALES AND OLDER BLACK MALES GETTING KILLED OR GETTING MISTREATED AND ETC IT NEED TO STOP EVER TIME U TURN AROUND SOMEBODY PARENTS OR FAMILY ARE BURING THERE SON’S OR HUSBAND AND THAT DONT MAKE NO CENTS AT ALL CAN WE ALL JUST GET ALONG CAUSE GOD WOULD LIKE FOR US TO GET ALONG AND MARTIN L. KING HE WANT THE SAME AND WE R FREE…SAME THING THAT HAPPEN TO ME AT WORK I WORK AT CUSTOMER SERVICE THIS OLD WHITE GUY CALL ME A N WORD I WAS SHOCK THAT HE SAD THAT SO I REPORT HIM AND MY MANGER TOOK CARE IT CAUSE NO LONG CANT COME BACK IN THAT STORE NO MORE. IT HURT ME TO MY HEART HE SAID THAT BUT THATS OKAY GOD GUIDE ME THOUGH…ALL I WANT TO SAY THIS RAICST GOT TO STOP RIGHT NOW LIFE IS TO SHORT FOR THIS LETS ALL GET ALONG.
The reason why we as so- called blacks go through these things is found in Deteronony 28:15-68
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. America is not the only captivity we have been in for four hundred years. Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
just droping some knowledge … Shalom
Our people have been so caught up in mind control that we as have no Ideal of our true Identity. You have been led to believe lies and fables. II Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (KJV)
You are not Black, Negroe, African American or Afo- American but Hebrew … Wake up please and see that your true identity has been stolen from you like everything else. The Bible is your History book… read it.
more knowledge … Shalom
I moved to South Carolina when I retired the cost of living is low but the State has a lot to learn I saw a woman who said she was a Christian pick up an Iron pipe to hit a man with whom has Aids she fast the day before and has all kinds of Jesus figerine on her desk along with a bible. And they call this place the bible belt. I find these Jesus Freaks horrible.
What is the name of the caucasian officer who made the remarks? Why wasn’t his name released?
I did not know that BET’s Owner’s are White,,And if the is true that would explain a lot as to why we see the mess that is on BET,Our children need to see more history programs,not these video’s with all this mess of songs that really dont show them anything.and the negetive that BET show,,So what do we as a people do? find out the owner’s and demand that they show something that is positive as to how we truly live,,not everyone grew up in the street’s or ghetto’s