I'm In A Rental, Why Are You Arresting Me?

Can I ask you why you stopped me? I mean I already told you that this is a rental and I am not on drugs.

The city of Des Moines has a population of 230,000 residents. It is the state capitol of Iowa and the largest city in the state. The city is surrounded by Interstate 235, an auxiliary freeway that spurs from Interstate 35 and 80.

The city is facing a public backlash. There's a video of a young man and his passenger in rental car being detained by two Des Moines Police officers.

The two men were stopped at a local intersection and let's just say that the body camera didn't really give insight to why the pair were stopped. The encounter happened in July. The video was released Monday.

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Des Moines cops Kyle Thies and Natalie Heinemann pulling over Montray Little and Jared Clinton, despite video showing no obvious traffic violations.

Little and his passenger Clinton, are accused of having drugs in the car and acting like they have a weapon as well.

Little is handcuffed and Clinton is taken out of the car while they and the vehicle are searched.

No drugs or weapons were found.  Police did find an open bottle of alcohol which they had the men dump out. According to records obtained by Iowa CCI, Officer Thies booked suspects on 282 charges into the Polk County Jail in 2017.  All of them were African-Americans.

Cops failed to inform Black motorist why they stopped him. They accused him of having drugs in the vehicle but not why they stopped them in the first place.

The Des Moines Police Department is disputing those figures.

CCI released a statement revising the initial claim about the data on Thies' bookings. Parizek said police inspected the same data CCI had looked at and found that Thies was responsible for 253 arrests, with 127 arrestees being black — about 50 percent.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just 11 percent of Des Moines residents identify as black or African American. Another 3.4 percent identify as belonging to "two or more races."

Bridget Fagan-Reidburn, community organizer with Iowa CCI said, "We, unfortunately, had this piece of the data wrong. But unlike the DMPD, we can admit our mistake and take responsibility. The updated data for Thies’ booking history still tells the same story. In our opinion, he has a clear pattern of targeting young black males, and it has to stop."

After releasing the footage, Iowa CCI launched a petition calling for the Des Moines Police Department and the Des Moines City Council to end racial profiling. The petition has been signed by over 550 residents in less than 24 hours.

After the videos became public, police received an influx of comments and questions on social media regarding the behavior employed during the traffic stop, Parizek said, adding that they cannot reply to every post about the incident.

"We expect our officers to be tactful and tactical," Parizek said. "If we aren't tactful, we may offend someone, leave a bad impression and appear unprofessional. If we aren't tactical, we may die. A lack of tact can be corrected with one of, or combination of, training, re-instruction and, possibly, discipline. A tactical failure could become irreversible. Ideally, we work to find the balance of the two so that we can be safe, as well as respectful.

"Every aspect of this encounter will be evaluated during the administrative review."

Donald J. Trump's Amerikkka.

GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.

BAD COPS WILL GET GOOD COPS KILLED.

HOLD THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS.

RACIAL PROFILING IS REAL