So typical and exhausting, do something wrong just blame it all on your skin color.
Minnesota Democrat State Rep. John Thompson is playing the race card after being pulled over for speeding and not having a proper license plate on his car.
Thompson was pulled over on July 4th and he tried to play the “I’m a State Rep.” card with the officer.
That’s where things got interesting because Thompson has a Wisconsin license even though he’s an elected state rep of Minnesota.
In response to the body cam video, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell is demanding an apology from the Democrat.
Chief Axtell wrote on Facebook:
“...I looked into the traffic stop, watched the body worn camera footage and spoke to the sergeant. This stop, made at about 1:20 in the morning, had absolutely nothing to do with the driver’s race.
What it did involve was a public servant doing what the community asks of him. He was working a Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) traffic safety detail, which is a grant-funded initiative administered by the State of Minnesota. One of its goals is to ensure compliance with traffic laws.
Simply put, the traffic stop was by the books. What happened afterwards was anything but.
I’m dismayed and disappointed by the state representative’s response to the stop. Rather than taking responsibility for his own decisions and actions, he attempted to deflect, cast aspersions and deny any wrongdoing...
The driver, an elected official who does not dispute driving without a front license plate, owes our sergeant an apology.”
The Star Tribune reports on the issue of Thompson’s license:
“concerns about his license escalated Tuesday, as the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association requested that the Wisconsin attorney general investigate Thompson for repeatedly getting a Wisconsin license while living in Minnesota, saying he "defrauded Wisconsin."...
Republican Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer asked Secretary of State Steve Simon to explain his process for verifying Thompson's residency when he was running for office last year, and she suggested legislators might need to change the law.
"Minnesotans have a right to know what the Secretary of State did to determine Representative Thompson was eligible to seek office in House District 67A," Kiffmeyer said in a statement. "The public normally is able to view candidate filings to hold them accountable for living where they are running. In the absence of a public filing, it's important to know what, if any steps, the Secretary of State took to ensure a candidate using narrow privacy protections actually lived in the district they are required to live in."