Former Baseball Player Says Police Racially Profiled Him Are police really out here racially profiling folks outside their house? Ridiculous. According to Raw Story: Former professional baseball player and New York Times columnist Doug Glanville gave his account of being racially profiled outside his Connecticut home by an officer in a column for The Atlantic on Monday, saying the officer was working outside of his jurisdiction when he suggested Glanville was shovelling his driveway illegally. “In one moment, I went from being an ordinary father and husband, carrying out a simple household chore, to a suspect offering a defense,” Glanville wrote. “The inquiry had forced me to check my tone, to avoid sounding smug even when I was stating the obvious: that I was shoveling the driveway because the house belonged to me.” “I noted the strangeness of his being in Hartford—an entirely separate town with its own police force — so I thought he needed help,” Glanville wrote. “He approached me with purpose, and then, without any introduction or explanation he asked, ‘So, you trying to make a few extra bucks, shoveling people’s driveways around here?’” When Glanville identified the home as his own, he wrote, the officer left the scene without apologizing, instead offering an “empty encouragement” to enjoy his shoveling. The West Hartford News reported on Tuesday that police in West Hartford released a statement saying the officer was responding to a report stemming from a February complaint identifying a “Black male, in his 40′s, wearing a brown jacket and carrying a snow shovel” in West Hartford who asked a homeowner if they wanted their driveway shovelled. That individual was allegedly seen going into Hartford shortly before the officer’s encounter with Glanville, and was later given a verbal warning for breaking West Hartford’s ordinance against door-to-door soliciting. The officer thought he was the hired help…SMH.
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Pigs Ain’t Isht: Ex-Baseball Pro Doug Glanville Says Cops Racially Profiled Him Outside Of His Own House
