If you are black, avoid east Texas

[ElTaino]

TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.

That's because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: voluntarily sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.

more ... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,6051682.story

 

[nhoj]

If your black visit Vidor Texas. LOL

This happens to everyone in louisiana no only blacks.

 

[pubguy]

Smaller municipalities in Louisiana use to do the same thing to tourists traveling from Texas to the casinos. White or black, made no difference.

 

[gtc08]

you don't visit vidor, you drive through vidor.

both are white trash towns. uneducated and poor who have no idea what they are doing after reading that article.

its also scary that guys like nhoj are ok with more civil liberties with the police dissapearing. just wait till it's him and he'll be quiet.

 

[nhoj]

I don't think I would have a problem in Vidor. Ive been there many of times. It is my gas stop on the way to the Casino. Pub they still do it not as much as they used to but it still happens white black or other them Louisiana cops are nasty.

 

[nhoj]

white trash towns another racist comment.

 

[quantumleap]

I'd like to see a decoy car go through there with a well-armed militia pulling up behind after the decoy got stopped and see what happened then.

 

[nhoj]

What they were known for in Louisiana was planting weed in the back seat and telling you your choices. Pay and go on your way or we can tow your car and talk about it when the judge comes back from vaction in a few days.