SC woman's claims of being harassed by 'white cop' are questioned as new footage emerges

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A South Carolina woman who said being pulled over for speeding by a “white cop” was a “traumatic experience” is having her story questioned after police body camera footage from the incident showed a less intense series of events unfolding.

Dawn Hilton-Williams, in a Facebook Live video on April 27, accused a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office sergeant of racism after she was ordered to sign a summons asking her to appear in court or pre-pay a traffic ticket. The officer said he clocked her going 70mph in a stretch of rural Route 58 in Virginia that has a 55mph limit.

“It doesn’t matter how polite you are, it’s all sick, crazy bullying and the police are ridiculous,” Hilton-Williams says in the 11-minute video, at times wiping tears from her face and speaking in a frightened tone.

But in video footage released Monday by the sheriff’s office, when confronted with the summons – Hilton-Williams immediately starts questioning the officer where there are signs that say the area has a 55mph limit.

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She went on an 11 minute FB rant about how she was threatened by the officer and that all black people know how she feels. And white people need to know.

Then there's the video from his body cam and that tells a different story. Apparently saying "please, thank you, and ma'am" is threatening language.

I post this because I'm not so blind to think that all cops are complete boy scouts. Most of them are really great people doing a very hard job. But there are some that abuse the power that they can wield. I'm all for purging those types out.

But when you publicize false flags like this over and over, it ends the conversation faster than it started and it makes the next time something flares up even harder to discuss.