re: Woman spent 6 years fighting ticket in Woodworth, LA

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Do any of y'all remember Jessel Ourso and his band of armed goons with the Iberville Parish Sheriff's office?

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Yes. But he was considerably more well connected than these idiots. Ties to the governor and mob bosses.

His authority in his parish was absolute, as more than one state trooper learned.

My grandfather was tasked with keeping him supplied with deer meat, year round.

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My point is racism had nothing to do with this so why are there those trying do damn hard to make it so.

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Two reasons, I think.

First the Court didn't look at previous ticket issuing patterns (as near as I can tell).

Taking that away, you wonder, "what was the motivation for the stop?".

Well, we've got an illiterate (in the professional sense, maybe in every sense) white cop who has no sense of basic law. Then, if you're the Court you think, "He can't be this dumb. He must've only stopped her b/c he saw a black person driving."
Not exactly the first time that ever happened...

I can see how people would logically think this.

That said, it more probably was, based on the thieving practices of this little shithole, just as likely to have been about revenue generation.

So the conclusion is that it's easier to believe (and prove, second reason) he's a racist than an actual thief with a gun and a badge.

And the shitty thing is that the people of Woodworth, although they had a good alternative in the mayor's race last year, decided to put the crook back in. It's not because locals are immune either - the cops prowl the residential areas for speeders also. Road I live on has a 25 mph limit (I usually idle), and it is the one with the Methodist Center drive on it.

Also note, judge writing the opinion is a BFSJW, but that doesn't make her wrong. Is it OK for cops to just pull you over with no probable cause, just b/c they are curious as to what you are up to?

Based on the fact summary from opinion, after personally meeting the plaintiff and scamming her out of $300 outside the courtroom, the mayor had her arrested at her house and jailed for 25 days on for not paying the rest of these bullshite traffic charges.

I don't see story after story of Asians or Indians getting their asses beat or shot while having interactions with the police. They are certainly minorities. Maybe if blacks and Hispanics weren't so confrontational with massive chips on their shoulders...

You see?

You are talking like you have a gotcha that it MUST be race when off the top of my head I already gave two alternatives:

Make and model of car being incongruent with neighborhood is a FAR higher probability than race. Even more so due the lighting conditions.

Or he was bored.

I don't know. I never claimed to. I just said its a bullshite statement to say there is no possible explaination but race.

I think we are all arguing the same side of the coin.

Greed, race, ignorance; they are all piss-poor reasons for a "cop" to eff with somebody.

The Court determined the officer's reason for the stop was the woman's race. Whatever his bs reason was, she won the case and got paid.
Justice ultimately prevailed.

I will give her immense credit for not "taking it" and actually fighting it. Not many of us would've done the same.

My guess is that Woodworth is still Woodworth and they are banking on the fact that not many people have the same balls this lady had.

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Make and model of car being incongruent with neighborhood is a FAR higher probability than race

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so i can't drive a shitty car in a nice neighborhood, without being subject to random police interrogation?

why you so mad, bro? tired of the po-po being accused of racism? is you a LEO?

yeah, i think the current LEO pay hierarchy in Rapides is:
LSP
RPSO
APD
PPD

all the rest of the podunk municipal forces.

So Woodworth isn't getting the best and brightest, and those guys jump around a bit to make more money.