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Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022 (apnews.com)

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Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 17 hours ago

Funny they are able to dig up footage from three years ago, but when they empty a magazine into a man laying on the ground with his hands cuffed behind him, they can't seem to find the video.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TL;DR:

KAG was stopped. He was calm and polite.

Then police officers started making racist assumptions because he had more non-white passengers in his vehicle than usual and one of them had enough money to purchase half an iPhone, as police do.

Then they let him go because they had nothing on him.

All I see is a big fat nothing at all.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago

Just a racist dogwhistle. See? The police stopped him, so he must he a bad person who doesn't deserve due process.