“UMPOSSIBLE”? Armed black man survives police encounter unscathed

A black man in Arizona was pulled over while carrying a Glock.

Would you believe he didn’t get shot, beaten or tortured?

He didn’t even get a citation, much less arrested.

No way, right?  I mean, Black Lives Matter will tell you cops are just racist pigs looking for an excuse to light up a black person for no reason, right?!

From Facebook:

Steven Hildreth, Jr.

So, I’m driving to my office to turn in my weekly paperwork. A headlight is out. I see a Tucson Police Department squad vehicle turn around and follow me. I’m already preparing for the stop.

The lights go on and I pull over. The officer asks me how I’m doing, and then asks if I have any weapons.

“Yes, sir. I’m a concealed carry permit holder and my weapon is located on my right hip. My wallet is in my back-right pocket.”

The officer explains for his safety and mine, he needs to disarm me for the stop. I understand, and I unlock the vehicle. I explain that I’m running a 7TS ALS holster but from the angle, the second officer can’t unholster it. Lead officer asks me to step out, and I do so slowly. Officer relieves me of my Glock and compliments the X300U I’m running on it. He also sees my military ID and I tell him I’m with the National Guard.

Lead officer points out my registration card is out of date but he knows my registration is up to date. He goes back to run my license. I know he’s got me on at least two infractions. I’m thinking of how to pay them.

Officers return with my Glock in an evidence back, locked and cleared. “Because you were cool with us and didn’t give us grief, I’m just going to leave it at a verbal warning. Get that headlight fixed as soon as possible.”

I smile. “Thank you, sir.”

I’m a black man wearing a hoodie and strapped. According to certain social movements, I shouldn’t be alive right now because the police are allegedly out to kill minorities.

Maybe…just maybe…that notion is bunk.

Maybe if you treat police officers with respect, they will do the same to you.

Police officers are people, too. By far and large, most are good people and they’re not out to get you.

I’d like to thank those two officers and TPD in general for another professional contact.

We talk so much about the bad apples who shouldn’t be wearing a badge. I’d like to spread the word about an example of men who earned their badges and exemplify what that badge stands for.

#BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter

[EDIT: In my rush to post, I accidentally omitted that my wallet was in the back-right pocket, near my firearm. This was the primary motivation for temporary disarmament. The post has been modified to reflect that.

Again, I’d like to thank the TPD and their officers for their consistent professionalism, courtesy, and the good work that they do, both in this particular contact and every day.]

 

 

Another story made the news of late.  A different black man, one with a history of arrests, seeks asylum in Canada because he’s in fear of his life because he’s black.

(MSN – caution, annoying autoplay video) Whenever Kyle Canty sees police officers walking towards him, he says he crosses the street out of fear. This fear has him petitioning Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board to grant him asylum and official status as a refugee. He says, “I’m in fear of my life because I’m black.” Canty requested that the Board grant him special citizenship. Although he has a history of arrests, Canty asserted that all of his negative interactions with cops were a result of racial profiling.

All of his arrests, of course, weren’t his own fault for breaking the law and acting like a low-life thug.  No, they were because the cops were racists.

From a story at Fusion:

Though he has a history of arrest himself, Canty asserted that all of his negative interactions with were a direct result of racial profiling. Currently, Canty has pending criminal charges for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and illegal trespass.

He can stay, Cant-He?

Canty is living in a homeless shelter in Vancouver.

I’m sure some bureaucrat in Canada is going to strain a muscle acting to quickly give some non-productive, whining criminal amnesty, right.  Because Mr. Canty needs a new victim pool to ply his apparent criminal tendencies.