More fake racial profiling ...?

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An NAACP president and pastor says that he was racially profiled during a recent traffic stop, but bodycam footage was released that destroyed the pastor's narrative.

WPDE-TV reported that police stopped Moultrie for failure to use a turn signal as well as an issue with his license plate.

According to WPDE-TV, Moultrie wrote, “Tonight, I was racially profiled by Timmonsville Officer CAUSE I WAS DRIVING A MERCEDES BENZ AND GOING HOME IN A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD.”

Moultrie described the white officer as belligerent and abusive and noted that when he told the officer that he lived in the neighborhood — and that the Mercedes Benz he was driving belonged to Moultrie — the officer supposedly quipped, “And I guess I am Bill Gates.”

“Guess I can’t be a pastor and can’t drive a Mercedes Benz and live in a nice neighborhood,” Moultrie wrote. “Someone needs to answer for this behavior and this officer will.”

Timothy Waters, a local community activist, was disturbed by Moultrie’s claims. So Waters was eager to unearth the bodycam footage from the traffic stop in order to support Moultrie.

When Waters obtained the body cam footage, he was shocked — and not because of the way the officer treated Moultrie.

“Once I got a copy of that bodycam, it’s as if he made the whole story up,” Waters told WPDE. “And I felt like he set us back 100 years, because think about all of the racial profiling cases (that) are true.”

Brown said that he was “shocked” when he saw the video that “someone who is supposed to be a community leader, a pastor, and head of the NAACP would just come out and tell a blatant lie.”

“It bothered me,” Brown admitted. “It really bothered me, thinking about the racial unrest it could have cost in the community.”

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