{"id":378234,"date":"2018-09-23T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-candidate-busted-for-dealing-politics-seeks-apology-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T01:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T00:30:58","slug":"black-candidate-busted-for-dealing-politics-seeks-apology-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-candidate-busted-for-dealing-politics-seeks-apology-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.09\/thumbnail\/5ba6cb58dda4c875608b45ce.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ahead of the Democratic primary for a state Assembly seat in Wisconsin\u2019s 77th District, Shelia Stubbs was knocking on doors in her neighborhood trying to secure votes in August. As she was campaigning, an anonymous call was placed, notifying the police of a <em>\u201csuspicious vehicle<\/em>\u201d potentially involved in drug-dealing.<\/p>\n<p>When approached by a patrol officer, the 12-year veteran of the Dane County Board of Supervisors was forced to provide detailed explanations of her activities in the neighborhood. After seeing her name tag and campaign fliers, the police were still unconvinced and questioned her 71-year-old mother to clear the matter. The entire interrogation unfolded in front of her eight-year-old daughter who was patiently waiting with her grandmother inside Stubbs\u2019 car.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HJ8tftdSvMQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI&#8217;m definitely a victim of racial profiling and the police was called on me because I was black,\u201d<\/em> Stubbs told RT, calling the police response <em>\u201cinsulting\u201d<\/em> and a <em>\u201cwaste of our taxpayers\u2019 dollars.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/437546-gillum-desantis-soros-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: Racist robocalls and Soros funding? Florida governor race turns dirty fast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy eight-year-old daughter looks at my eyes and says, &#8216;Mom, why don&#8217;t we belong here?&#8217; Why don&#8217;t they believe us?&#8217; and that degraded me and humiliated me. And I was so angry and I was so hurt,\u201d<\/em> she recalled.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/432022-swimming-pool-racial-profiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: \u2018Racial profiling\u2019: Man fired after calling police on black neighbor at pool (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The unpleasant experience has forced the official to halt her campaigning in the neighborhood out of fear that someone might once-again report her to the police. In light of the incident, Stubbs sought justice and an <em>\u201capology\u201d<\/em> from the anonymous caller, all while wondering <em>\u201cWhat does a drug-dealer look like? What does a drug-dealer car look like?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After securing the Democratic primary vote, Stubbs had vowed to campaign against racial injustice ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/439143-humiliated-degraded-wisconsin-candidate\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood. Ahead of the Democratic primary for a state Assembly seat in Wisconsin\u2019s 77th District, Shelia Stubbs was knocking on doors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}