Ex-Bill RB Marshawn Lynch says Police Profiling was the reason he left Buffalo on recent podcast

[teef]

Just now, Big Turk said:

 

I got stopped leaving work one night because I worked down by the Broadway Market and it was already dark since it was around this time of year and I was getting off at 8pm-ish.  The police stopped me and asked what I was doing down there.  Told them I was leaving work to go home. They asked where I worked. Mind you, I had my work clothes on that showed exactly where I worked so I just pointed to the logo...

 

Then they said "Oh, we just wanted to check because there are a lot of white people who come down here at this time of night to buy drugs and we wanted to make sure that wasn't what you were doing down here."  

 

I looked at them and asked them "What was your probable cause to pull me over?"

 

They said "Have a nice night and walked away."  

 

i was actually just about to ask @Logic if he was typically pulled over in specific parts of the city.  it was my understanding that you would get pulled over if they felt you didn't belong there.

[Logic]

1 minute ago, Big Turk said:

 

I got stopped leaving work one night because I worked down by the Broadway Market and it was already dark since it was around this time of year and I was getting off at 8pm-ish.  The police stopped me and asked what I was doing down there.  Told them I was leaving work to go home. They asked where I worked. Mind you, I had my work clothes on that showed exactly where I worked so I just pointed to the logo...

 

Then they said "Oh, we just wanted to check because there are a lot of white people who come down here at this time of night to buy drugs and we wanted to make sure that wasn't what you were doing down here."  

 

I looked at them and asked them "What was your probable cause to pull me over?"

 

They said "Have a nice night and walked away."  

 

I believe it. My interactions with police officers in western New York generally seemed prefaced on the assumption that I didn't know my rights. Fortunately, I did, and any time I demonstrated so, they usually backed down -- though clearly it irritated them, and sometimes it took a cooler headed second officer to talk the first one into giving it up.

I was not a fan of the Rochester police. I felt harassed by them FAR more often than I felt protected by them, as did many friends of mine.

[Big Turk]

1 minute ago, teef said:

i was actually just about to ask @Logic if he was typically pulled over in specific parts of the city.  it was my understanding that you would get pulled over if they felt you didn't belong there.

 

I almost asked them to have their sergeant come out and file a complaint but I didn't feel like waiting another hour or however long it would have taken for all that to happen and I was tired and just wanted to get home.

 

[Milanos Milano]

1 minute ago, teef said:

i was actually just about to ask @Logic if he was typically pulled over in specific parts of the city.  it was my understanding that you would get pulled over if they felt you didn't belong there.

Are you even sure you feel like you belong In Rochester? 

[Logic]

2 minutes ago, teef said:

i was actually just about to ask @Logic if he was typically pulled over in specific parts of the city.  it was my understanding that you would get pulled over if they felt you didn't belong there.

Yes.

For a long time I lived on Clifford Ave, not far from Conkey. That was where a lot of this happened.

In fairness, though, one of the incidents described did happen in a nice suburban part of East Irondequoit. I drove a pretty new looking tan/gold Dodge Stratus at the time. Normal looking dude, normal looking car, not breaking any laws, not speeding.

I realize this isn't everyone's experience, but it was mine. I can only speak for myself and what I experienced.

[In Summary]

Sounds like 1915 and he didn't vote to reelect the right Ward boss.  

[Big Turk]

Just now, Logic said:

Yes.

For a long time I lived on Clifford Ave, not far from Conkey. That was where a lot of this happened.

In fairness, though, one of the incidents described did happen in a nice suburban part of East Irondequoit. I drove a pretty new looking tan/gold Dodge Stratus at the time. Normal looking dude, normal looking car, not breaking any laws, not speeding.

I realize this isn't everyone's experience, but it was mine. I can only speak for myself and what I experienced.

 

I had another far more interesting stop happen in Lancaster on my way home from a friends house around 1am once where I basically asked the cop if it was illegal to be driving at 1am when he couldn't give me a reason why he pulled me over.

[teef]

9 minutes ago, Araiza Curse said:

Are you even sure you feel like you belong In Rochester? 

oh sure!  i'm adorable so no one ***** with me.

[boyst]

19 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

Yeah, playing down racism and proclaiming to know the REAL truth... right on brand.

well, knowing the whole story is important to this situation. lynch stirred up trouble when he hit on a married woman who may have been enticing him. the story was very well covered here back in the day.

 

i don't know what brand means but you don't need to run your mouth when you don't know the whole story claiming someone is trying to downplay racism when you don't even know what the hell you're talking about. lurk more, speak less.

Edited October 17, 2023 by boyst

[Buffalo_Stampede]

None of my business .

[teef]

9 minutes ago, Logic said:

Yes.

For a long time I lived on Clifford Ave, not far from Conkey. That was where a lot of this happened.

In fairness, though, one of the incidents described did happen in a nice suburban part of East Irondequoit. I drove a pretty new looking tan/gold Dodge Stratus at the time. Normal looking dude, normal looking car, not breaking any laws, not speeding.

I realize this isn't everyone's experience, but it was mine. I can only speak for myself and what I experienced.

i'm really not sure if i'm making this up, but i remember an incident happening somewhere similar in the city, and shortly after it became know that if you didn't look the part, you were getting pulled over due the assumption that you were up to no good in that area.  i thought you could be pulled over with no specific cause as well, but it just doesn't sound right.  

 

clifford ave is that area though.  my best friend's dad owned in insulation/asbestos removal company on clifford, and the stories they had were amazing.  that said just a short bit down, it was empire blvd.  it's a strange stretch of road.

[Don Otreply]

Not saying he isn’t telling the truth, 
but being that ML has always been a choir boy ya know, he would have never brought this upon himself…, 😂

[djp14150]

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

I wonder what the whole story is.  Not saying he's lying, he very well might have been pulled over for no reason...I wasn't there.  

It would be nice to hear reasons why.

 

I had a friend that said cops were out to get him and why he got a ticket.  He had expired tags by like 3-4 months but still felt like it wasn't justified and the cops targeted him.   

Driving while black in buffalo suburbs of a near certainty over 5 years.

[Big Turk]

3 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:

Not saying he isn’t telling the truth, 
but being that ML has always been a choir boy ya know, he would have never brought this upon himself…, 😂

 

Which basically furthers my thought that this was a personal vendetta against him some officers had.

[Ramza86]

Marshawn isnt the best guy in the world. 

Ive seen and heard too many negative things with this guy.

 

I think there was one where he started running down some dude in a casino like a crazy person.

[NoSaint]

1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

Checked to see if there was anything else on this previously...apparently he just talked about this on a podcast with Shannon Sharpe...

 

Sounds pretty personal honestly, like one cop or a group of cops had some type of personal vendetta against him...getting pulled over multiple times leaving the game and practices while still on stadium grounds??  Has any other player reported anything like this?

 

Seems strange that he would be the only person this would happen to if it was this aggressive...

 

"Marshawn Lynch revealed on a recent episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast that police profiling was the reason he left the Buffalo Bills.

Lynch seemed almost at a loss for words as he told Sharpe about a series of incidents. “I’d get pulled over going to work, I’d get pulled over coming from work,” he said. “I got pulled over in the stadium leaving the game. I’m still on the property of the Buffalo Bills, and I got pulled over twice. In the facility!"

 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/marshawn-lynch-reveals-profiling-police-204320362.html

I try to get on the Marshawn bandwagon but will mention…. 
 

1) maybe the profile was guys accused of hit and run that played games with the police

 

2) it’s hard for Marshawn to simultaneously joke about things like Hennessy during games then also complain about being targeted leaving games 

 

3) the man had plenty of legal issues outside of Buffalo 

[Beast]

1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

 

Even if this was the case, they have no basis for pulling anyone over on private property.

The stadium is on County property.

[Freddie's Dead]

39 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

How many tones would you say Tommy had?

Tu. 

[nedboy7]

Funny to see some being triggered by his comments.  Relax.  People have different experiences in life.  You don't need to immediately pass judgement.  This ain't fakebook.  At least I hope so. 

[Beast]

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

@Beast

 

Is this true?

Since the stadium is on County property….

 

And, yes, the Police most certainly can pull someone over on private property.

Edited October 17, 2023 by Beast