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Man claims racial profiling after traffic stop video in Orange County, California

A video posted on social media sparked racial profiling accusations after a man documented an encounter with a traffic stop in Costa Mesa.

The driver claims Orange County police officers used racial profiling and discrimination to harass him.

The incident occurred last Tuesday when a 22-year-old University of California, Berkeley student was pulled over while exiting the South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa.

Student Abdullahi Aden initially pulled over because of the tinted windows before his encounter with Costa Mesa police officers escalated.

A video posted on TikTok shows a conversation in which Aden tells a cop he doesn’t have the right to search his car just because he doesn’t have a driver’s license.

As the video continues, Aden says, “Even though I studied at the number one public university.”

The officer replies, “What, prison?”

“As soon as I said college, he said, ‘Huh, prison?’ Twice,” Aden recalls. “He said to me, ‘Where’s your license?’ I started looking inside the car,” says Aden.

Aden said the officers’ actions reflected racial profiling after he approached him and insisted on searching his car for no reason.

“I saw a black kid in a car in a Costa Mesa mall and I thought, ‘This kid is causing trouble,'” Aden said.

“These comments were racist at best and racist at worst,” said KTLA legal analyst Alison Triesle.

Triessl points to a recent Supreme Court case challenging the officers’ claims.

“The cops in this case were wrong,” Triessl said. “He didn’t have a driver’s license, so he had no right to search this driver’s car. It’s simply not California law.”

The Costa Mesa Police Department has launched an internal investigation into the incident and said in a statement: We want to assure the community that we take these issues seriously. “

“I’m not anti-cop,” Aden said. “The problem is that cops don’t see us like humans.”

After Aden interacted with the officer, he received a tinted window fix ticket. Aden said the officers involved were told they had since been put on leave.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-alleges-racial-profiling-after-traffic-stop-in-orange-county/ Man claims racial profiling after traffic stop video in Orange County, California

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