Traffic laws are for the little people.
Via NJ Com:
A South Orange-Maplewood School Board Member was caught on camera using foul language and apparently calling a police chief a “skinhead” after being pulled over for speeding last month — the second recent incident in which a public official was recorded mouthing off to a cop.
In the dash cam video, obtained from police by NJ Advance Media, Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad can be heard using profanity and complaining when issued tickets by a South Orange police officer.
During the traffic stop, a hysterical Lawson-Muhammad threatens to “call Sheena…and your skinhead cop chief, too,” apparently referencing South Orange Village President Sheena Collum and village Police Chief Kyle Kroll.
Earlier in the video, the board member can also be heard telling the officer, “I’m scared of cops because you guys hurt black people.” Lawson-Muhammad, who cannot be seen on the video, only heard, is black.[…]
Walter Fields, Chairman of local advocacy group the Black Parents Workshop, which is suing the school district on an unrelated matter, issued a statement Wednesday condemning the board member.
“Ms. Lawson-Muhammad must issue a public apology to this officer. Given the lengths to which efforts are underway nationwide and locally to address the real issue of police brutality against African Americans, it is appalling that this Board Member would conduct herself in this way,” he said in the statement.
“The officer should be commended for his professionalism, demeanor and the respect he showed a citizen who immediately tried to use her position to intimidate him.”