the ironic thing about Tim Scott, he has admitted in the past that there is systemic racism, he and people he knows have experienced it themselves in regards to policing. Tim Scott is just another morally bankrupt GQP'er sucking the teat of racist white Trumpy America because without them, he would never win office again. Four years ago he was talking about 'cracks in the very foundation of this country' - it's like he never made that speech. He is the very definition of an Uncle Tom. These people are just horrific.
"There is absolutely nothing more frustrating, more damaging to your soul than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not," said U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.
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While many law enforcement officers do good, he said, some do not. "I've experienced it myself."
Scott revealed that he has been stopped seven times in the course of one year as an elected official. "Was I speeding sometimes? Sure. But the vast majority of the time I was pulled over for driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or something else just as trivial.
He described several encounters with police, including one where he was stopped because the officer suspected his car was stolen. He described a similar incident that happened to his brother, a command sergeant major in the U.S. Army. And he told the story of a staffer who was "pulled over so many times here in D.C. for absolutely no reason other than driving a nice car." The staffer eventually traded in his Chrysler for a "more obscure form of transportation" because "he was tired of being targeted."
"I do not know many African-American men who do not have a very similar story to tell no matter their profession. No matter their income, no matter their disposition in life," he said.
He asked his Senate colleagues to "imagine the frustration, the irritation, the sense of a loss of dignity that accompanies each of those stops."
Scott also described walking into an office building on Capitol Hill and having an officer ask him to show his ID even though he wore a Senate pin.
While he is thankful he has not faced bodily harm, he said, "there is absolutely nothing more frustrating, more damaging to your soul than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not."
"We must find a way to fill these cracks in the very foundation of our country," he said.
The senator ended with a plea to his colleagues to
"recognize that just because you do not feel the pain, the anguish of another, does not mean it does not exist.""