Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Black Princeton Students Pulled Over by Police, Then This Happened - The Root

Black Princeton Students Pulled Over by Police, Then This Happened - The Root: Exchanges between black youth and the police don't always have to end in violence.

What began as a unfortunate incident of alleged police profiling in Princeton, N.J., ended with a public-forum discussion with the officer who did the profiling.

According to one member of the Black Youth Project 100, or BYP100, a youth-centered black activist group, the police pulled over a car carrying members leaving a conference on Princeton University's campus. The officer cited a broken taillight, but upon investigation the vehicle was found to be intact. The unidentified officer let the group go, but when they asked him to take part in a discussion, he agreed to meet the young people at another location, offering them free parking as an apology so they could talk at will.

And so he did.