{"id":393,"date":"2012-04-06T04:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-04-06T04:32:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:32:41","slug":"tyler-perry-white-police-racially-profiled-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry: White Police Racially Profiled Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bossip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/tyler-perry-new-show1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tyler Perry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Tyler+Perry\">Tyler Perry<\/a>&#8216;s accusation that two cops who pulled him over targeted him because he is black has reportedly sparked an investigation into the Atlanta Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Perry posted about the incident Sunday on Facebook, explaining how he was stopped after making a left turn from a far-right lane \u2014 a ruse security taught him to make sure he\u2019s not being followed.<\/p>\n<p>The post has gotten more than 117,000 \u201clikes\u201d on the social network and nearly 22,000 comments.<\/p>\n<p>The two officers, both white, who pulled Perry over apparently didn\u2019t recognize the \u201cGood Deeds\u201d star, whom Forbes in September named the highest-paid man in entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Perry says after he explained why he made the illegal turn, one of the officers asked, \u201cWhy do you think someone would be following you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officers continued to \u201cbadger him,\u201d one even banging on his tinted windows, Perry says.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until another police car pulled up, and a black officer stepped up to Perry\u2019s window, that someone recognized the actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took one look at me and had that \u2018Oh, no\u2019 look on his face,\u201d Perry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Atlanta Police Department has launched an internal investigation into Perry\u2019s claim that he was harassed because he is black, E! News reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we have made significant strides with racial profiling in this country, the world needs to know that we are still being racially profiled,\u201d Perry wrote on Facebook, adding that racial profiling \u201cshould be a hate crime investigated by the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/tyler-perry-accuses-white-cops-racial-profiling-pulled-launches-probe-atlanta-police-department-article-1.1057056#ixzz1rEMzFJIZ\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/tyler-perry-accuses-white-cops-racial-profiling-pulled-launches-probe-atlanta-police-department-article-1.1057056#ixzz1rEMzFJIZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Perry&#8216;s accusation that two cops who pulled him over targeted him because he is black has reportedly sparked an investigation into the Atlanta Police Department. Perry posted about the incident Sunday on Facebook, explaining how he was stopped after making a left turn from a far-right lane \u2014 a ruse security taught him to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-racist-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}