Andre D. Carroll
2:19:13
It was not allowing me to unmute.
2:19:16
First, I wanna give my condolences to the gentleman who spoke last in person to him and his family, for the loss of his daughter.
2:19:23
Then I would like to also thank for New York City council.
2:19:27
I wanna thank chairman Selene for holding this hearing, and I also wanna thank council member Kaban for her remarks today.
2:19:34
I am state representative in Pennsylvania, Andre d Carroll.
2:19:38
I just wanna mention that public safety is a priority for all of us, but community and police relations must also be a priority.
2:19:45
Philadelphia City Council Member A Few Years ago introduced driving equality, which was introduced by Isaiah Thomas, which city council passed.
2:19:54
This law was introduced to help reduce the targeting of drivers of color.
2:20:00
I do wanna share a personal story that while I was a Lyft driver during my college years, I had been pulled over numerous of times.
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A few times included air freshener air freshener hanging from my rearview mirror and a single hair light being out as the reasoning.
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I also have been pulled over for sitting too long at a gas station on the phone.
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While none of these interactions or instances, I'm sorry, impeded on public safety, my interactions with police was not always positive.
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Oftentimes, I felt targeted, and because of those reasons for pulling me over, gave me room to, be subject to a car search, with every single time no contraband being found.
2:20:42
A research on when the law in Philadelphia was conducted, it showed that out of three hun 300,000 traffic stops, that only 0.03% of the searches led to any kind of contraband.
2:20:53
While I now may be a state representative, I understand that everyone doesn't have that privilege and that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and not be subjected to targeted traffic traffic stops.
2:21:03
I wanna thank city council, for allowing me to space today, and I also wanna thank, acts that you consider these, considerations as you continue to promote traffic safety.
