Chicago -Since police supervisors work in Chicago to determine whether changes should be made to the CPD’s traffic stop policy and practices, one of the police of our city says that he was the target of an illegal traffic stop in Arizona last summer. Many of the complaints CPD officer Jalen Woods was broadcast during Interviews with a Phoenix TV reporter Echo is worried that people here in Chicago raised police practices.
The officer, Jalen Woods, spoke for the first time with KNXV in October, only a few weeks after a Tempe Police Department Bicycle Team stopped him because he is said to have the tires of his loud and flashy Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye -Rentenaaauto screaming while a turn Wijk made in a local nightlife.
Tempe Cops claimed that they heard the tires of Woods ‘Tjilp’ and smoke burning rubber, making them the stop. But the forest says that he has not screamed his tires and claims that the Tempe Cops quickly went from writing a ticket to a fish expedition for greater problems.
“They asked for weapons and drugs in the vehicle several times, if I had it. I told them ‘no’, time and time again, there are no weapons and there are no drugs, “Woods told KNXV. “They also asked for jewelry, whether there were jewelry in the vehicle, which was very confusing to me, such as, what do jewelry have to do with something?”
Woods says he told the police that he was also a police officer, but “I feel that things made things even worse, as if they wanted to escalate the situation even more because they did not believe me.”
The police asked Woods to get out of his car and immediately fascinated him. Tempe Police told the KNXV reporter that their officers arrested Woods because he does not meet the policy of the “Cite and Release” office for traffic violations. However, the news exit showed that the claim seems to be incorrect.
Tempe PD policy asks for physical arrests during traffic stops only for Dui, if a crime has been committed to the vehicle, if someone tries to flee the police, or if the subject refuses to sign a crime traffic fit, KNXV reported. Woods did not fall under one of those categories, but he was still arrested. The police also seized his car, a movement that they made possible, so that they could perform an “inventory search” of the vehicle in the hope of finding smuggling.
Tempe Police told the KNXV reporter last year that it would not offer the bodycam videos with regard to the traffic stop and arresting Woods for 14 months. “If I tried to hide something, I would also let you wait a long time,” Woods told the news exit.
Since his first interview with KNXV, Woods has secured the Bodycam videos itself and transferred them to the TV station, which portions in one Follow -up report last week.
The images show forests that make the left bend, in which he reportedly screamed his tires, causing the smell of burnt rubber in the air. Although that part of the video has no sound, Woods seems to be driving at a low speed and there is no smoke from his tires.
A public prosecutor who read the police report to Woods shortly after his arrest said that the officers claimed that he “did a kind of fish tail, as if I lost control of the vehicle,” Woods recalled. But the video broadcast by KNXV shows nothing of such.
Tempe -Officers of Justice rejected the case against Woods on September 11 and said that the chance of conviction was low.
According to KNXV, he has submitted complaints to Tempe PD and the US Department of Justice and is considering a lawsuit.
“I feel that I was the target and discriminated against because of my skin color,” Woods told Phoenix station. “They didn’t believe I could be a police officer.”
“I felt focused. I felt dehumanized. ‘
KNXV said last year that Woods was “temporarily removed” from his position at CPD, but then returned to the track. A CPD spokesperson said last week that Woods is an active CPD member that has been assigned to the South Chicago district (4th), but currently works in the training and support group.
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