x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by IQ12 with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:04:29 -0400 thread-index: AdDD106elcMgDzPEQLiUwV1Q6Lw6YQ== Thread-Topic: Turbeville Cops From: To: Subject: Turbeville Cops Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:04:29 -0400 Message-ID: <9920356C90AC445AB5355E03DBC4C36C@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2015 17:04:29.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[4EB60100:01D0C3D7] CUSTOM Mr Dwaine J Burroughs Jr. 1115 Cockfield Road Scranton SC 29591 SkipBurroughs@gmail.com 843-389-9240 PCOR Turbeville Cops 152.133.7.132 Governor Haley, It doesn't take much research to find news articles discussing the corruption of the police in the city of Turbeville SC. They were caught a while back writing traffic tickets and printing their own tickets which couldn't be tracked by the state using portable printers in their police cars. State representatives have even made comments about the corruption in this town. When my own son got in trouble there a while back, I spent roughly $2000 on a lawyer for him to have charges dropped that were utterly ridiculous in the first place. However, all charges were dropped on the other young man in exchange for the ticketing officer getting time in a lake or beach house the young man's family owned. I honestly don't recall which it was at the time, as that was at least a year or two ago now. But I think the point is clear. The police there are corrupt. Today at 6:45am roughly (give or take 10-15 minutes), I passed through and noticed two young black women very visibly frustrated with what I thought to be a flat tire. I wasn't sure whether they needed help so I stopped to see if anyone was coming to help them, or if there was anything I could do. They were almost to the point of tears they were so upset. Someone in town had abruptly stopped in front of them and turned, resulting in a near accident. I found this easy to believe; I pass through daily and people in town will regularly pull out in front of you or slam on brakes and turn with no signal. I've gotten used to it. The two told me they had veered to the edge of the road to avoid hitting the car, which they did. But they struck the curb portion of the sidewalk and it took out two of their tires. The Turbeville cop (ever present) witnessed the event so I would have expected that he would be helping them to get the tires repaired and be on their way. Did I see that? No. Instead this racist piece of excrement wrote them a ticket for $600 and left them there to fend for themselves. If he did anything at all, he would have been the one who called the tow truck they were waiting on, which would have cost them another $250 plus since that's the standard police "on call" fee for tow trucks. Why would this be so apprehensible? It was so apprehensible because there was a tire shop not more than a block from where they were standing. Mind you this is only tire shop in town and the only one within 15 miles. And there was no damage to their car outside of the two tires. Although I confess I didn't look terribly close, but I didn't see as much as a cut in the tires from what I saw looking quickly to assess their situation. In truth, the two young ladies may have simply hit the curb hard enough to separate the tire from the rim and allow the air to escape. But what should have ended with no worse than two tires being repaired or replaced and a lesson learned about paying closer attention to the road cost these two young ladies nearly a thousand dollars or more this morning. And I have NO doubt in my mind it was because they were black and the officer was white. I travel nearly 80 miles each way to work passing through this town daily. And since I live only 15 miles from Turbeville and know many who live there, I've heard every disgusting story you can imagine about this town extending all the way to the courts in Manning. It's truly sickening. I see what I feel is racial profiling by them almost daily. So my point is this, since I happen to be one of those you offended to hell and back taking down the flag which represented my ancestors to "fix" racism, when will someone do something about the actual racism occurring rampantly in places like Turbeville by our own police? The flag wasn't harming a soul. But what's real and tangible and happening often is being ignored. What happened to these two girls this morning was horrifying to me. Yet it happens all the time in this state by our police, and it's ignored as if it doesn't happen. I've seen it since I was a child watching a poor black man who was being beat mercilessly by the local police for nothing more than being drunk. It upset me and scarred me for life growing up with so many blacks so close to me. I'm now close to fifty years old, and I want to know as a white man living in this state when is it going to end? Removing the Confederate Flag was just political posturing. It did nothing to help anyone, and doing it removed the focus from the blacks shot in Charleston and put it on rhetoric and utter nonsense. I know in my heart your office allowed the Klan a permit to march with the flag as an opportunity to clear your name. You allowed it as an attempt to show that racists are the only ones who carry this flag. Not only is this wrong but it is immoral and does great harm to my own heritage. But then you had to give equal opportunity to the Black Panthers because of granting that permit, knowing the fight would ensue. By these actions, you started real and tangible, and extremely visible racial conflict when none had previously existed. Neither of the two groups came from this state. It would have been very easy to deny them both a permit to demonstrate or have a parade. You certainly threw those in jail that demonstrated on behalf of the Occupy movement. You make the rules as long as you're in office. And in doing so you created the current conflict from nothing. So now do something positive and show someone you have some intention on fixing the real racism here. Fix Turbeville. But more importantly, find these two young ladies and right the wrong done to them this morning by police in our state. Show them that we're not all what you created on the news nationwide. Not everyone who defends the Confederate Flag is a racist. Food for thought.