Colored Former Chicago Aldermanic Candidate Steve McClellan Files IPRA Complaint Against Chicago Cops Over Traffic Stop
No seat belt and in possession of weed.... BUT IT'S BECAUSE I AM BLACK THESE COPS STOPPED ME!
OLD TOWN — Steve McClellan, a former 43rd Ward aldermanic candidate, said he has filed a complaint with the Independent Police Review Authority after officers allegedly threatened him with violence during a traffic stop in Old Town.
McClellan said he was on his way to buy a cable at Best Buy around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday when he was stopped by police at North Avenue and Larrabee Street.
The officers told McClellan that they pulled him over for not wearing a seatbelt.
During the stop, McClellan said the officers threatened him with violence and he was afraid for his life. It wasn't until McClellan showed officers his identification that they stopped shouting at him and threatening him, he said.
A Chicago Police spokesman could not immediately confirm McClellan's account Thursday.
Officers eventually found a small amount of marijuana in McClellan's glove box, so they took him to the Near North District police station, McClellan said.
McClellan argued he never should've been pulled over in the first place. He said he was a victim of racial profiling.
"There's no way in hell I should have been pulled over," he said. "It was 100 percent racial profiling. The officer thought I was a thug. I had my snapback hat on."
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