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A white Georgia police officer named, Maurice Lawson, was caught on camera threatening a black driver. Maurice was not fired for this incident, but instead moved to a different precinct. This is not the first time Lawson has pulled this racist behavior. AJC : Lisa Cupid, who is African-American, was caught up in a firestorm this summer, after she complained about Lawson following her so aggressively that she thought he was going to ram her from behind. She said of that experience with Lawson that he “was not there to protect and serve. He was there to harass and intimidate.” Cupid was leaving a hotel during the early morning hours, after studying for the bar examination, when Lawson began following her in an undercover car, with tinted windows and only one working headlight. The commissioner, who has seen the Baker video, said she met with Lawson and his precinct commander earlier this week, and left that meeting with a “headache.” “The video at the very least demonstrates some question about this officer’s level of judgment,” Cupid said. “I could easily be jumping up and down and pointing the fingure right now. That’s not the action I want to take. I’m just being very watchful about how they respond.” Cupid said of her incident that the officer would not have followed a white driver in a more “affluent” part of the county. She was heavily criticized — by members of the public and by her fellow commissioners — and complained that county leadership didn’t adequately respond to her questions and concerns. Police investigation found that Lawson did not violate departmental policy in his encounter with Cupid. Commissioner Bob Weatherford said Cupid’s complaint “has created division that in my view may impede her ability to govern her district.” Weatherford said he hadn’t seen the dash board video of the Baker incident when contacted Thursday, and said he wouldn’t get involved in an ongoing police investigation. Why is this guy still on the job? They are letting him treat people of color badly in ANOTHER part of town now? WTF!? ajc.com

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White Georgia Cop Tells Black Driver “I Don’t Care About Your People… Go Back To Fulton County” [Video]