Omaha, Neb. (AP) – Chief of the largest city police of Nebraska acknowledged on Friday that the police are more likely to pull blacks out of their car weapons than other racial groups, as Omaha grabs a growing resentment for the champion boxer Terence Bud Crawford’s order from their car.
“Frankly, this is usually a real statement. The number of stops is disproportionate. This is all over the country,” police chief Tob Schmaderer said at a press conference to draw attention to internal investigation into Crawford traffic stops.
The police confrontation with the black Crawford reigned the long -term tension between the Omaha Black Community and its police forces. Omaha’s elder Terrell McKinney, one of the three lawmakers of the Black State Black State and a vocal critic of Omaha police and state justice system, said he was disappointed but not surprised by the police stop.
“I urge people to continue talking and boldly and unpromising on real change,” McKinney said in a Facebook post earlier this week. “Our lives are in danger, and we have been experiencing oppression for too long.”
According to the special report of the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2022, black and Spanish people were more likely to experience the threat or use of the police than 2020. Blacks are also more likely to be shouting than whites.
Police Chief of Long Community Police Support
Schmaderer is a supporter of the community police for a long time whose purpose is to build trust between officials and their patrol society. On Friday, he said he realized that there was a lot of anger in the community for Crawford, the son of his favorite Omaha, after the story, becoming the first boxer who captured three united division titles.
“We understand the importance of this traffic stop to our community, and the impact and impression it created,” he said.
However, he said that an almost completed internal traffic stop investigation shows that the participating officials did not violate the department’s policy.
According to their reports, officials noticed a high quality sedan without license plates pulled out of the city center parking lot around Sunday at about 1:30 p.m., and speeds up more than twice for 25 miles per hour (40 km / h). Officials were unaware that Crawford was driving a car, said Schmaderer before they covered it. Two officers approached him – one on the passenger side and the other on the driver’s side.
Schmader said that the initial interaction was sincere, which he rated through the footage of the body chamber. When driving Crawford, the officer said the car was new and “retreated” through his window.
At that time, a member of the Crawford security team in the passenger seat told the official through the window that he was carrying a legal manual weapon, Schmader said. Crawford, who leaned over the car console, said the officer also had a legal firearm, but the driver’s side window did not hear that exchange, Schmader said.
That’s when the driver’s side officer noticed a Crawford weapon on the floor board behind his feet, pulled his own weapon and ordered Crawford and three other people. Schmader said Crawford and others were handcuffed for about 10 minutes. The police confirmed that all passengers were allowed to carry firearms and release them after about 30 minutes. Ticket sales Crawford suspects reckless driving.
A Crawford spokesman said on Friday that the boxer did not comment.
The video of the event will not be released, says the chief
Schmader said he would not share the police video “STOP” unless Crawford agrees with it.
“We do not have death here. We do not have shooting from officials, and usually there is no wearing that footage in such circumstances,” he said.
Crawford stop police after the city organized a parade through the city center streets in honor of Crawford, and then the party to celebrate its 38th birthday in a live music place near where the stop took place.
The celebration took place after Crawford won a unified super -average weight championship with its united decision victory over Canel Alvarez on September 13th. Las Vegas. Crawford is 42-0 with 31 beats.
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Aaron Morrison, the Associated Press Race and ethnicity news editor, contributed to this New York report.