Cop Asks Black Passenger For Social Security Number - YouTube

Channel: Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey

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{\an8}Why are you talking to your phone?
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{\an8}I'm right here.
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{\an8}>> Cuz I'm recording you.
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{\an8}>> That's fine.
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{\an8}You're allowed to record me [CROSSTALK] saying talk to me.
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{\an8}>> Okay sir, I gave you my information.
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{\an8}Can you please go running please?
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{\an8}That's I don't have my ID on me.
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{\an8}I don't have no ID.
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{\an8}>> All right.
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{\an8}Listen, when somebody is difficult like this, it makes me nervous.
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{\an8}So I'm gonna call for backup.
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{\an8}Asked him to come here just just in case because you're being very uncooperative
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{\an8}for some reason.
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{\an8}>> So you didn't want my name and my daily breath and my last name.
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{\an8}>> All right. So you gave that to me?
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{\an8}>> Yes. >> You're hesitant about it?
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{\an8}>> No, I wasn't, I told you I didn't have my ID, and I gave you my name.
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{\an8}I spelt it out, could have been on video.
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{\an8}>> Have you ever had an ID in Massachusetts?
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{\an8}>> Everybody had an ID, I just don't have it on.
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{\an8}>> Okay, so you had a Massachusetts ID?
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{\an8}>> Yes. I don't have my wallet.
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{\an8}>> If you have an ID, is the state ID?
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{\an8}>> I have an ID like an identification ID, whatever you call that ID.
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{\an8}>> What did you get it for?
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{\an8}>> To add like you need the ID.
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{\an8}>> I'm just trying to identify what kind of ID it was.
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{\an8}You know what I'm saying?
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{\an8}>> Okay.
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{\an8}>> Like was it didn't look like this?
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{\an8}>> I have an ID.
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{\an8}>> You don't know if it looks like this or not?
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{\an8}>> It looks like a Massachusetts license.
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{\an8}All right, what's your social security number?
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{\an8}>> It's a damn shame.
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{\an8}All right.
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{\an8}The guy gave his name his date of birth, spelled his name.
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{\an8}All right, make sure the officer had the correct spelling.
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{\an8}The officer still doesn't just go and run the check.
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{\an8}Now I wanna remind you he's he's on the passenger side,
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{\an8}he's not driving the vehicle, he's a passenger in the car and
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{\an8}this officer needs his information.
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{\an8}Let's put up a picture of the officer and the young man TikTok username Twisty.
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{\an8}Twisty shared the interaction he had with a Massachusetts state police
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{\an8}officer which ended in the cop asking for a social security number,
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{\an8}Twisty was sitting in the passenger seat of the car.
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{\an8}He was not the driver and Twisty did eventually provide his
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{\an8}social security number which is quite abnormal.
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{\an8}So we'll give some background in the original audio.
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{\an8}He said what else was I supposed to do?
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{\an8}I didn't have my ID on me and I wasn't trying to make stuff turn bad so
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{\an8}I just cooperated.
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{\an8}Right?
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{\an8}So, according to Legal Match, this is important.
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{\an8}According to Legal Match.
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{\an8}As a general rule, a passenger is not likely required to show identification.
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{\an8}However law enforcement can require a passenger to show their ID if the officer
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{\an8}has reasonable suspicion that the individual has violated the law or
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{\an8}was in the process of violating the law.
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{\an8}It's not clear of Twisty as being suspected of anything in this
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{\an8}video, right?
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{\an8}Police officers are reportedly allowed to ask passengers for
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{\an8}their social security numbers.
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{\an8}They're allowed to request it and
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{\an8}any other information that may help them better identify the individual.
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{\an8}However, the person is not generally required to provide it,
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{\an8}according to Bill Walkie Journal Sentinel.
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{\an8}In a separate follow up Twisty gave more details.
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{\an8}So we just got out to work, we start driving and not even five minutes
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{\an8}down the street bro, lights come on referring to the lights of a cop car.
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{\an8}He walks up to my boy, asked him a few questions on the driver's side,
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{\an8}then he makes his way over to my side and starts asking me questions.
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{\an8}Doesn't look like he has established some kind of reasonable suspicion that
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{\an8}a criminal act had taken place by the passenger or
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{\an8}was in the process of taking place.
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{\an8}Isn't it ironic that people who get into the profession of law enforcement
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{\an8}don't actually like laws?
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{\an8}They don't like laws.
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{\an8}Laws if applied equally wood land many of them in jail immediately.
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{\an8}They don't really like laws, they don't like accountability even though they want
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{\an8}jobs to hold everybody else accountable.
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{\an8}They don't want to be responsible for their actions.
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{\an8}They don't want accountability.
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{\an8}So they sign up to police unions that will do one thing,
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{\an8}protect them when they should be held accountable, right?
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{\an8}That's what they do.
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{\an8}These same individuals think about how depraved their minds are,
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{\an8}the same individuals, we'll go to a training camp,
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{\an8}sign up to do a job that they are completely adversarial to.
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{\an8}[COUGH] It would be a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing if
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{\an8}we had law enforcement who were actually public servants.
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{\an8}Who actually engaged in transformational leadership dynamics.
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{\an8}Who cared about the common good decency respect constitutional law, statutory law.
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{\an8}Who cared about how they delivered and presented to the general community and
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{\an8}knew that they were reflections of the community at large.
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{\an8}That would be a beautiful thing.
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{\an8}That's not what the industry of policing is about,
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{\an8}unfortunate, but 100%, what it is today?
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{\an8}All right, what it's gonna take, it's gonna take us continuing the fight.
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{\an8}All right.
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{\an8}For those on linear thank you, for
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{\an8}those watching me via streaming we will continue.
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{\an8}Angel, what are your thoughts?
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{\an8}>> I think you're absolutely right.
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{\an8}It really does once again,
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{\an8}it really does bolster the fact that our system is wholly broken.
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{\an8}But the thing is this is how it was intended to operate.
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{\an8}With law enforcement essentially being slave patrols,
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{\an8}Slave catchers and going to this man asking for his freedom papers,
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{\an8}it's just a form of harassment and they know that.
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{\an8}And also asking for a social security number, I don't care what the law is.
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{\an8}I'm not dropping my SSN to anybody.
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{\an8}>> Right. >> And and it's also very unfortunate just
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{\an8}how much we as black people do to avoid these types of interactions.
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{\an8}Or to create situations in which we can't give the officer any justifiable
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{\an8}reason to assume that we are involved in some kind of criminality.
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{\an8}For example, I carry screenshots or pictures of my ID on my phone.
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{\an8}I know my ID number by heart.
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{\an8}And this individual was being very respectful and responsive and for
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{\an8}the officer to say, no you're being uncooperative.
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{\an8}I need to call in for backup.
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{\an8}It's just a reminder that no matter what we do we will be seen as a threat and
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{\an8}lies will be told against us to justify treating us as though we are criminals.
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{\an8}>> Right and I think that was the most telling part of the interaction.
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{\an8}You're making me uncomfortable, I'm getting nervous.
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{\an8}I gotta call for back up now and then he calls for
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{\an8}backup sounding like he's scared.
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{\an8}Allight? He gets all the other officers worked up.
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{\an8}They come in adrenaline rushing.
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{\an8}It's a black man on the passenger seat who refuses to give me his information,
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{\an8}which wasn't true at all.
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{\an8}It was very simple.
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{\an8}The man spelled his damn name for you and you decided not to go to your car and
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{\an8}check it out.