A D*mn Shame: T. J. Holmes Pulled Over For Driving While Black?

July 30th, 2012 - By madamenoire

Source: gistexpress.com

From BlackVoices

Former CNN host T.J. Holmes was pulled over on Monday, and documented the experience over Twitter.

Holmes did not indiciate where he was driving, but tweeted that he was pulled over one mile from his house with two cop cars behind him. He snapped a photograph of a police car in his rear view mirror with the caption “Driving while black ain’t no joke!”

Holmes tweeted updates from the side of the road over the course of ten minutes. He wrote that the officer was “stumbling over his words trying to explain” why he was pulled over. “This is a damn shame,” Holmes wrote.

Read more about the ordeal on BlackVoices.com.

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  • Mystique

    It just goes to show that no matter what your status, to white people, we are still a “N.”

  • Candacey Doris

    An if he wasn’t famous they woul have cuffed him an taken him in. My bro gets pulled over every once in ahwil because he rives a nice car. First question is always “Is this car yours?”

  • TRUTH IS

    Yonkers cops (white) pulled over my brother and beat him up for no good reason….this happens everyday. Too bad the cops who are supposed to protect us, turns out we need to be protected from them!! Crying shame!!

  • CA Pullen

    I hate that happened to him. Why does he has to go to the internet and put his business out there?

    • sammi_lu

      Ummm to spread awareness..out of disgust and to put the cop on blast no doubt.

      • CA Pullen

        He could have done that on televison. I am sure he will get interviews to share his experience..

        • status quo

          oh yeah, put them on blast and humilate the entire police dept. even do a half hour episode on Cnn “driving while black.” is he still on Cnn?

    • get real

      Uh to bring awareness to this madness. Why do you think? The man has a platform to let white people know that this madness is real. See they don’t believe you and me so maybe they will believe a CNN anchor. What planet are you from?

  • http://twitter.com/DTFunkyChocolat Dannie

    How did the police officer not know who he is? …freakin idiot. -__-’

  • Hello_Kitty81

    No pig pulls over my TJ Holmes, LBVS!!!
    And the pigs wonder why we say F**K THA POLICE!!!

    • gracie

      Lol

  • gracie

    Reminds me of George Willborn’s case. He couldn’t buy a house in a certain neighborhood because he was black. They had no idea that he was a famous black man and a radio personality!!

    • Hello_Kitty81

      Yeah, that was here in Chicago and a couple of years ago.

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