Larry Wilmore takes off the comic hat to take a very serious look at what happened to Sandra Bland in a mundane traffic stop gone bad.
The cop in this is no local good ole boy, but a Texas State Trooper who is supposedly trained in escalation confrontation and completely failed the test.
As we see, the moment was when he told this woman in her car stopped for a questionable lane change violation to “put out your cigarette.” That’s the moment it all went to Hell. I too would have questioned his right in that as EVERYONE SHOULD. Let me repeat that. If any American stopped by a policeman tells them to put out a cigarette it is our constitutional DUTY to explain to the nitwit that he is going way way beyond the pale. This is especially onerous to African Americans who have experienced this false authority going beyond the law most of their lives.
The Republican constitution has no 4th or 14th Amendment.
Oh sure, white guys will holler about doing whatever a cop tells them to do unless it was their white wife in the same situation..
But the kicker in this piece comes at the end where we find Larry Wilmore’s political enemies, Fox News and Donald Trump saying it was the cop who was way out of line.