Minnesota State Rep. John Thompson claims that he was stopped "while driving black." The state rep supposedly lived and worked the small coke state (you know, mini soda), but had a Wisconsin driver's license. To make matters worse, that Wisconsin license was suspended by Minnesota for failure to pay child support in 2019. The officers bodycam video shows that the officer noticed that the Rep did not have a front tag. So, he did a U-turn. This was because of a missing front tag. Not because the driver was black. Back in 2006, I moved from Georgia that does not have front tags to Virginia which does. This was to manage a Terminal for a trucking company. By Virginia laws, I have 30 days to change over my license and tags to Virginia. I made the change two weeks after moving. A week to get a Virginia Inspection Sticker, and went to DMV the second week. Yet, that did not stop police officers from making a U-turn to see what state tag I had. The officer would follow me for while he/her ran a tag check. They would then go on when they found that the there was no violations. I have no doubt that that is what happened to the state rep in this case. The officer made a U-turn, and saw that the tag on the vehicle was a Wisconsin tag. Since Wisconsin is not one of the 19 states that do not require a front tag, he pulled the driver over. It is possible that the rep got nervous because the cop was behind him, or maybe he wanted a ticket so he could claim racism. The fact that the officer claimed driver took off too fast was not needed for a reason to stop a driver. All that was needed was the missing front tag. You can guess that the officer ran the tag check, and knew that the rep was driving on an suspended license. The officer would have ran the license to verify that the license was suspended. Which he did. Therefore the driver this backs up the St. Paul Police Chief's statement that the stop was by the book. So, why would this state rep do this? Maybe it was because of the incident in Texas where a state rep pulls over to monitor a police officer that pulled over a black man, and Texas Congresswoman Maxine Waters who berated a cop for stopping a black driver. This state rep wanted to get his 15 minutes of fame. Bodycam footage raises doubts about state rep's racism claim for traffic stop: 'Driving while Black' | Fox News
Sad isn't it? The subject of deadbeat dads is a pet peeve for me. I married a woman that was raising to kids that were fathered by deadbeat dads. I could not even adopt them, because their fathers refused to acknowledge them or sign off on the adoption paperwork. In my opinion there is not much worse the someone that will not take responsibility for their actions.
I understand poor people not paying child support as often they can not afford it, but rich people? I will never get that that said, I also do not agree with taking away a driver's license for not paying child support - the two are unrelated, just take it out of their pay check
It doesn't make sense. How is removing his ability to drive going to help him get to work to pay child support?
I do not care whether the man is rich, poor or somewhere in the middle. If they father a child, they have to take responsibility for their actions. We have created a huge mess by letting men off the hook. If you can not afford to support a child then take precautions to ensure that you take precautions not to father one. Frankly, I would take thing a step further. I would have the state confiscate all valuables (including cars) that the deadbeat dads owns. Auction them off, and give the money to payoff back child support.
if they don't have the money, they don't have the money, maybe if one can't pay, they should get the child and the other pay, women should not be the only ones getting the child, either could personaly a step father should also take part of the burden, as when they marry, they are also taking the responsibility of being a parent usually child support comes after a child is born, people don't plan on divorce, too late to use protection then that said, agree all parents should try their best to care for a child, and in some cases, child support is not helping the child sadly, but one can still support the child financially and emotionally to the best of their ability just the same
I've heard this from others and I don't get it. What good is it to tell someone not to do something that has already been done? Beyond that, this whole thing just seems hypocritical. People want to complain about the state government having to help single parents WHILE protesting abortion. No, abortion should not be used a form of birth control but it's simply wrong to verbally abuse women seeking this option but nothing beyond that. If one is not willing to help a single parent raise their child (for 18 years, sometimes more), they have no right to tell anyone if and when they should bring their baby into the world. Beyond that, this whole this is ludicrous. There are more than enough REAL examples of racism against all minority groups. The only reason they release these kind of stories is so bigots can keep snubbing their nose at "them" (whoever the hatred is targeted at) while pretending that they don't have white privilege.
"Beyond that, this whole this is ludicrous. There are more than enough REAL examples of racism against all minority groups. The only reason they release these kind of stories is so bigots can keep snubbing their nose at "them" (whoever the hatred is targeted at) while pretending that they don't have white privilege." agree, while I agree that some will blame all their troubles on their being black, even if it's not related the reason this made the news was also probably due to propaganda value against blacks that are abused
This type of incident is likely the basis for the bulk of "driving while black" claims. I was once stopped for having one of TWO license plate bulbs out. Some cars don't even have license plate lights at all.
