Bodycam footage of two Orlando police officers pulling over Florida’s first and only black state attorney has gone viral. The cops, now accused of racial profiling, claimed her tags didn’t come back as registered and also eyed her legally tinted windows.
On Wednesday, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) released the bodycam footage from an officer who pulled over State Attorney Aramis Ayala on June 19.
When the officer approached her window, she handed him her license. After scanning it, the cop asked her what agency she worked for. Ayala, who serves as state attorney in the 9th Circuit, told him who she was, at which point the officer quickly gave her license back and launched into an explanation of why she was stopped.
“We ran the tag, I’ve never seen it before with a Florida tag, it didn’t come back to anything, so that’s the reason for the stop,”the officer explained.
“What was the tag run for?” Ayala asked.
“Oh we run tags through all the time, whether it’s a traffic light and that sort of stuff, that’s how we figure out if cars are stolen and that sort of thing,” the officer said, adding that her “windows are really dark. I don’t have a tint measure, but that’s another reason for the stop.”
Ayala then asked for the officer’s names, saying, “Do you have cards on you?”
The officer informed Ayala that he was not driving his own car, and offered to write his name down for her.
“There you are, have a good day,” the officer said after ripping a page out of his notebook and handing it to her. The footage then ends with Ayala driving away.
Sgt. Eduardo Bernal, a spokesman for the Orlando Police Department, told the Tampa Bay Times that it is their policy to run tags for official business only. He added that it is done “routinely on patrol.”
“In regards to the video, which was released by the Orlando Police Department last month, the officers stated the tag did not come back as registered to any vehicle,” Bernal told the Tampa Bay Times. “As you can see in the video, the window tint was dark, and officers would not have been able to tell who, or how many people, were in the vehicle.”
Bernal also said that there was no complaint filed over the traffic stop.
Ayala issued a statement through her office, stating that she “violated no laws,” and claimed that her window tint was “in no way a violation of Florida law” and her tags are “properly registered.”
However, she added that “the traffic stop appears to be consistent with Florida law,” according to a statement obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.
Here's State Attorney Aramis Ayala's full statement on being stopped by Orlando Police officers last month https://t.co/TJdo8cWA1M pic.twitter.com/gjAzPZSExQ
— Monivette Cordeiro (@monivettec) July 12, 2017
Ayala has recently been the target of racially charged threats after she announced in March that she will not pursue the death penalty for violent felony cases. Since then, Ayala has received a noose in the mail and the assistant finance director at the Seminole County Clerk of Court and Comptroller’s Office wrote a message on Facebook that called for Ayala to be “hung from a tree.”
After the body cam footage was released, Twitter users on Wednesday accused the officers of racially profiling Ayala.
https://twitter.com/AliciaInKosovo/status/885205676355719169
That video of Orlando Police pulling over Aramis Ayala really ticks me off. Racial profiling is real. #AramisAyala
— Master Mind, J.D. (@_DreCooley) July 13, 2017
We all know what was tinted too dark. https://t.co/2TWqKrwTg4
— pmysko (@pmysko) July 13, 2017
https://www.rt.com/usa/396175-orlando-police-pull-over-ayala/
“Cop talks like a queer and doesn’t shoot state attorney.”
That should be the headline.
As soon as they realized who she was, they couldn’t kiss her a$$ fast enough.
Typical back-peddling little shits.
When people realize that EVERYTHING is about ‘revenue’, EVERYTHING will make sense. Had she NOT been enough to scare them off – I 100% guarantee you she would have been cited with some fine-offense.
Oh; And good luck with that ‘open dialogue’……
Unless she does something directly to stop this kinda crap
Than she’s still part of the problem rather than solution
She has “the” get out of jail free card
So she doesn’t give a crap about how the rest of us are delt with by these thugs
Had it been anyone else, they would have gotten a ticket for something… anything
Or had the crap beat out of them while having
“Stop resisting ” yelled into their ears , as they lay motionless on the ground
Plus, the Pig lied to her..(yes i know they can lie to us , we cant them..thats gotta change)
all that BS about her “plate not coming back” F-ken pile of BS
oh and the “I dont have a tint measure ” than why even bring it up than? if you cant measure it, than you cant cite for it .. get back in your state owned car , and go home and beat yer wife.. you ARE still doing that,arnt ya.. right?
F-ken hypocrites
Also
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Nice race baiting article
How would the pig know she was black?
Said dark tinted windows …….
I’ll settle the cops struggle to explain.
We pulled you over because your black.
Plus you fit a racial profile and the car you are driving is to nice for you.
You must be a drug dealer according to our training.
Now here’s the punchline.
What if the cops were black and or Cuban/Mexican.
I guess this wouldn’t be an issue.
“Oh we run tags through all the time, whether it’s a traffic light and that sort of stuff, that’s how we figure out if cars are stolen and that sort of thing,” the officer said,…”
“… that sort of stuff/that sort of thing”?
This @ssclown’s a mental midget compared to Barney Fife.