PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WHDH) – A Rhode Island police union is pushing again after Patriots defensive sort out Christian Barmore accused officers of being racist once they pulled him over in Windfall Wednesday.
With the release of the police body camera video, Michael Imondi, president of the Windfall Fraternal Order of Police, mentioned the general public can see the officers did nothing unsuitable once they performed the site visitors cease that morning. He now needs Barmore to confess that he was unsuitable and apologize to the officers.
“If he was so prepared to come back out so rapidly and so publicly on an enormous platform to sentence the officers’ actions, then he ought to come out in the identical method and say that he was unsuitable and apologizes. It’s that easy,” Imondi mentioned.
The 25-year-old Patriots participant posted the accusation of racism on X at round 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
“I simply skilled for the primary time 5 Windfall cops being very unprofessional racism at it’s best,” Barmore wrote.
Imondi mentioned police pulled Barmore over as a result of they couldn’t see the numbers on his license plate and he had tinted glass on his automobile home windows, which is unlawful in Rhode Island.
“I can’t inform who’s within the automobile till you roll down the window. So, how might I’ve stopped you and based mostly my cease on racism?” Imondi mentioned.
The union claims Barmore was the one to inflame the routine site visitors cease, by loudly screaming racial slurs. They mentioned Barmore banged the steering wheel, puffed out his chest, and used foul language.
Whereas Barmore did finally take the X put up down, the union mentioned his false claims harm them.
“Condemning officers for racism when there was no racism there, that paints not solely these 4 or 5 officers with a broad brush, nevertheless it paints the entire police division and regulation enforcement with a broad brush, and that’s simply unfair,” Imondi mentioned.
The union president mentioned police would have been justified in charging Barmore with disorderly conduct, however they didn’t. Nonetheless, he’s dealing with citations for the site visitors violations.
Barmore’s agent didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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