Harmless guy Held at Gunpoint, Tasered, Arrested for an ‘Unclean license plate’
When police aren’t a kidnapping, caging, and killing people for possessing substances deemed illegal by the state, successively creating a criminal black marketplace for them which drives up against the law , they're out enforcing traffic laws. Any number of arbitrary traffic infractions can and can result in your extortion, arrest, imprisonment, or within the case of Philando Castile, death. Policing for profit within us is the norm. Over the years we’ve reported on stories of individuals being assaulted, arrested, and even killed over stops for victimless crimes like dark window tint, no safety harness , and burned-out vehicle plate lights. However, during a decade of police accountability, we’ve never seen someone stopped and nearly killed for a grimy vehicle plate — yet . Officer Kaleb Meyer with the New Braunfels...