http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/08/04/dash-cam-video-released-of-state-reps-traffic-stop/31143361/
The Austin County Sheriff’s Office released the dash camera video of a July 14 traffic stop of State Representative Garnet Coleman Tuesday to refute claims Coleman made last week about being disrespected and treated “like a child.”
Coleman, as the chair of the Committee on County Affairs, held a hearing last Thursday in Austin as the first public inquiry into the arrest and death of Sandra Bland in Waller County. In that hearing, Coleman recounted his own history of being pulled over in traffic stops and gave this account of an I-10 traffic stop that happened just two weeks ago.
“He talked to me like I was a child,” he said of the sheriff’s deputy who pulled him over for speeding. “He was so rude and nasty. Even when he found out I was a legislator, he became more rude and nasty. And I didn’t understand why this guy was continuing to go on and on and treat me like a child. And basically like I’m saying is treat me like a boy. I want to be very clear about that,” Coleman said in the committee hearing.
“How you doing?” the sergeant asks.
“All right. How are you?” Coleman answers.
“Pretty good. What’s the rush?” the sergeant says.
“I’m just trying to go home,” Coleman said.
“You can’t do 94 miles an hour, though,” the sergeant said.
“I didn’t realize that,” Coleman said, indicating he didn’t notice how fast he was going.
The entire traffic stop lasts approximately 9 minutes. Coleman tells the deputy that he is a state representative. The deputy says he is aware of that fact. He has already run his state representative license plate in the patrol car computer and found at least one previous speeding violation in Wharton County.
eing should be being.
The idea that this guy would slander a Cop who let him roll on a 19 over ticket and say he was being treated like a “Boy” by the Cop.
basically a college professor accused the cop of racial profiling and lied about being asked id she could even speak english ? to bad the stop was recorded !
IMHO these liars in any kinda position like this should loose there job !
I love Texas and its pride of itself and most all the real Texan folks I have met are super cool BUT Austin seems like its the part of our bodies we sit on and seems to be the one place in Texas I would not ever want to live
that and whats up with Waco ? seems like its got some insane cool stuff and some just plain insane stuff at the same time ?
Inner city Austin is a mess of liberalism. The outlying areas around Austin are fairly conservative. Remember…LaRue is located in this area.
Waco? Well, after the Branch Davidian fiasco, it got a reputation for craziness. Still…Waco is the home of Baylor University - a pretty conservative university and the people in and around Waco are friendly and very conservative folks if you ask me.
thanks
insane stuff also was fun insane cool like this
in my 50s would still do it till I hurt myself maybe first run ahhaahhaahah
but would be nothing like when I was young and could do it all day I bet
Cameras are a good thing for good people, including good cops.
I can see some of the slimier race-baiters losing their ability to get mainstream attention as these sorts of incidents come up, where one set of allegations is made and a video record disproves it.
Well this guy is a scumbag and I hope he gets an immediate recall election.
At the point you’re driving at 90+ mph on a public road and on my dime, someone needs to take your government car away from you.
Is there racism? Certainly, but this guy has done more with this statement to make things worse for every legitimate claim out there.
Sorry, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I reread the article & re watched the video and I don’t see where anyone is being racist. Even if the cop talked down to the State Rep, that’s not racism. Nor is the fact that he let him off with a warning.
No, there is no racism, but the State Rep was claiming there was, “Being treated like a Boy”, that’s a pretty volatile claim considering he walked on a 19 mph over the limit in a government car.
As it is, the claim he was treated like a “boy” is pretty much disproven by the video, However calling someone a bigot or a racist is pretty hard to take back and no, he wont apologize.
Not only that, the cop did him a solid!
“I noticed you like going fast. Stop doing that. Now I’ll issue a second warning so NO ONE EVER KNOWS you regularly flout traffic laws and it ends up in the NYT like Marco Rubio.”
Smash cut to “Attention town, state, world! I was pulled over and treated racist-like! It was awful! And you’ll have to take my word for it because there’s no record of this happening ever, ever, ever!”
If a cop caught me going 19 over and decided not to give me points and a nice fat fine, he can call me whatever he wants. All I heard here was a slight argumentative tone. I need to run for state rep, the perks seem fantastic.
Ha ha ha. He played the Race Card and the “Don’t You Know Who I Am?” Government Agent Card in an attempt to intimidate the LEO. Damn, I am truly shocked by such mentality.
Should have written his butt up for everything possible.
I believe what others here are saying is racist- is the term “boy”; and that it wasn’t meant in the “young man/child” context but in the racist context- like “Son” or “boy” has been used as condescending towards blacks.
And here I though this thread was going to be about the black woman who hung HERSELF in her County Jail cell, the family is suing the Trooper who arrested her on traffic warrants, the SO, and Detention staff. They first tried to say she was lynched in her cell because she is black. Nope, she was just depressed and took her own life but somehow that is racist . . .
and seems to be the one place in Texas I would not ever want to live