Resurfaced bodycam video showing the arrests of three Black young males who were DoorDashing in Wisconsin over the summer displays a textbook case of police harassment, racial profiling, retaliation, and civil rights violations.
That footage of a traffic stop on July 19, 2023, shows the Menomonee Falls Police pulling over a car with three Black males. YouTube channels like Patrolling Wisconsin and The Civil Rights Lawyer posted footage in recent days that racked up hundreds of thousands of views.
The beginning of the video shows a police vehicle following a car and attempting to conduct a traffic stop. Instead of pulling over on the street, the car drives into the parking lot of an apartment complex where the DoorDash delivery is addressed.
After the car is stopped, the responding officer tells the driver he pulled him over for speeding and that he isn’t allowed to deliver the food, but then starts questioning him about where he’s driving, his license plates, whose car he was driving, and why he was in Wisconsin when he has an Arkansas license.
The driver tells him he’s in Wisconsin visiting his older sister and driving his sister’s car. Even after the officer takes the driver’s license, he doesn’t run it in the police system.
He then tells all three of the occupants that the car smells like marijuana, questions them on the scent, and then requests all of them to step out of the car.
This is when things begin to escalate.
One of the passengers exits the car with his phone and repeatedly demands he put it back in the car. The officer tells him that he’s going to search the car for marijuana and tells him he’s not allowed to be on the phone.
When another passenger asks why he can’t have his phone on him, the officer responds, “We’re investigating something,” and another responding officer calls the order “lawful.”
The passenger with the phone turns away, and the officer grabs him and tries to snatch…
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