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"IT IS TIME FOR SOME CLARIFICATION"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why should the police officer get any blame? Everyone is equal under the law, including our Dear Leaders, so why call it in at all? Towing cars and ticketing unregistered and uninsured drivers happens literally every single day in this state, why should she be any different? It was unregistered, the plates were wrong, there was no proof of insurance. What is the police officer supposed to do? "Oh well, everything here is screwed up, but I'm going to let you go because you are above the law" ????? Really?

AGAIN: THIS HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE DAY IN THIS STATE! If you think towing a car for this violation is stupid, change the law.

September 14, 2011 at 8:05 AM

Anonymous peter brush said...

And what about Gail Hardy's involvement? When was the last time Ms. Hardy was involved in dismissing a minor traffic stop?
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It appears this episode will conclude without too much damage inflicted. Wouldn't be surprised if Nappier's insults provoked less than chivalrous behavior. Cops will be cops, and the better part of valor is to shut up, yes sir, no maam... I don't know how knowledge of her status should have affected, if at all, their handling of the situation.
Nappier owes an apology for gratuitous, peremptory, provocative playing of race card. I do suspect that it was race hysteria that caused Hardy to "storm" into HPD. She should apologize as well, for facilitating the suggestion that the cops were discriminating on the basis of race. There is/was no evidence of such. And, even if there were, it seems to me that the State's Atty. generally owes respect to the Department, and should be cautious and discreet in complaining.

September 14, 2011 at 8:58 AM

Anonymous Oxy Moron said...

Why was Nappier using a state car for personal use AND chauferring around a friend in said car?

September 14, 2011 at 4:03 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One does not have to be in a white neighborhood to be profiled. Anyone living in a poor neighborhood with known illegal activities is profiled as a suspect. Nappier was a suspect because she did not fit in. She was correct to say she is black, in a black poor neighborhood driving a big black car. Had a white person been stopped and said I am White, in a Black neighborhood driving a big White car it’s doubtful that the reporter would have asked if it was racial profiling He might have asked whether it was criminal profiling.

The word profiling has evolved in the minds of many people to define suspicious Black people in White neighborhoods. However, before Blacks attained financial security to move out of poor Black neighborhoods they were profiled in Black impovished neighborhoods and are so today.

The bigger problem overlooked by the police and the bloggers was a lack of homeland security on the eve of 911. If the police suspected that Nappier was an imposter and or that the state car in question was not registered than an alert should have been activated. The car should have been inspected for firearms and Ms. Nappier taken down to the police barracks.

Ms. Nappier would be wise to dismiss your call for a joint press conference. Before you released the police report, she had publically stated that she was not filing a complaint. The innuendos on the blogs are startling and year comment that she should buy and use her personal car misses the point and helps fuel the fire. She cannot put out this fire; it has been burning for hundreds of years.

September 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"And it makes you wonder how I knew about the incident within minutes after it happened, yet none of the top heavy Command staff had a clue?"

This comment speaks for the current state of the department. The rank and file have more confidence and trust in you than their own command staff. And your comments about our honorable treasurer are dead on. The whole 2 plate issue should not be allowed. Drive your personal car if you don't want to bring attention to yourself.

September 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You missed the point as well regarding use of a personal vehicle. Are you suggesting that people with families and friends in poor black neighborhoods buy two cars, one to drive in the hood and another to drive where they live?

Use of a state car by state officials is a tradition put in place by the majority of white men who were in political office and in the legislature. Interestingly, I do not recall anyone recommending that the car be limited to official use and that the 6-digit plate be eliminated when state officials drove the car to your local tavern, got a ticket or where in an accident on personal time. By the way, state officials pay car taxes on the state vehicle for personal use.

Since you and Kevin apparently believe that the use of a state vehicle on personal time and access to two plates was a mitigating factor in Nappier’s car incident put your money where your mouth is. Get your legislator to submit the legislation eliminating all state cars or limit use of the car. Let’s see if the police stop Nappier in a shining brand new personal car – in the hood of course. You guys love changing the rules when certain people learn to play or are in a position to get the “perk”.

One other suggestion, if you got a problem with state officials going into poor neighborhoods tell the candidates and politicians to stop paying poor people to go in there and get the people's vote on Election Day.

September 15, 2011 at 2:04 AM

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