Guilty of Driving While Colored in Arizona
Driving While Colored is the latest crime on Arizona’s books and its cops have been actively and zealously enforcing it even before it was actually enacted into law.
An American citizen by birth was pulled over and handcuffed in Arizona simply because he was colored. Nothing more than his skin color and racial origin prompted his illegal arrest and detention.
U.S. citizens are not required to carry any documents pertaining to their citizenship, except when crossing international borders. There is no national I.D. card and both conservatives and liberals have opposed this measure.
Asking a U.S. citizen for his nationality documents is equivalent to the Nazis asking Germans for their identity documents.
President Obama opined correctly that the law and its enforcement measures:
undermine basic notions of fairness … If we continue to fail to act at a federal level, we will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country.
