The story behind the $365,000 car that shut down Toronto’s Bloor

[tay]

A plainclothes officer in a Toyota minivan was driving on a highway north of Toronto Monday when, behind him, he noticed a white Lamborghini.

Fully-loaded with two-tone interior, high-gloss black accents on the front end and black chrome exhaust tips, it was a Huracán Spyder LP 610-4, one of the rarest and most expensive cars on the road in Canada today. Each one is flown in from Italy on a private plane, the whole thing costing around $365,000.

The officer, Det. Const. Dan Milliard, slowed down. “I wanted to let him go by to check out his car,” he said. As the Lamborghini passed, its top down in the heat, he noticed the driver. He was wearing a black Raptors jersey and basketball shorts, and looked familiar to Milliard, who works in the high-risk offender unit for York Region Police. “He’s come across our office, so I know him.”

Milliard followed the Lamborghini south. A dispatcher confirmed Milliard’s suspicion: The driver was prohibited from driving. There he was, though, merging onto the Don Valley Parkway on his way into downtown Toronto with an allegedly disqualified licence, in one of the most conspicuous cars on the market.

It was around 12:30 p.m. on Monday. Now in Toronto, Milliard needed to be in touch with the city’s police to make the traffic stop.

The Lamborghini took the exit for Bloor Street and headed west. Milliard followed, to the stoplight at Ted Rogers Way where a Toronto Police cruiser stopped the Lamborghini and an officer, with gun drawn, forced the driver out of the car and arrested him.

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[justlooking]

So he decided the penalty he would face wasn't worth respecting the law.
The solution is to make the penalty worth his time to notice.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Your cops pull guns on people and cuff 'em for suspended license? Damn! Good thing he didn't jaywalk. They probably woulda ventilated him.

So he decided the penalty he would face wasn't worth respecting the law.
The solution is to make the penalty worth his time to notice.

Finland has that. Your fine is based on your income. Most of our more conservative members weep and screech that that's SOSHULISM!

 

[Jinentonix]

Your cops pull guns on people and cuff 'em for suspended license? Damn! Good thing he didn't jaywalk. They probably woulda ventilated him.

Um, if you read the story, it appears the officer was familiar with the individual through his position in the High Risk Offender Unit. I'm thinking the driver was already known to the police for other activities that don't include driving with a suspended licence.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Black guy in a Lambo? He would have been riddled with bullets in Cincinatti.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Um, if you read the story, it appears the officer was familiar with the individual through his position in the High Risk Offender Unit. I'm thinking the driver was already known to the police for other activities that don't include driving with a suspended licence.

You should see what we do to jaywalkers and traffic offenders in Austin.

Well, black and brown ones, anyhow.

 

[Curious Cdn]

You should see what we do to jaywalkers and traffic offenders in Austin.

Well, black and brown ones, anyhow.

I thought that Austin is the leftie/pinko part of Tayeksus.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I thought that Austin is the leftie/pinko part of Tayeksus.

It is. We let 'em live after showing 'em who's boss.

 

[Jinentonix]

You should see what we do to jaywalkers and traffic offenders in Austin.

Well, black and brown ones, anyhow.

Hell, back in the '80s my buddies and I got pulled over by the cops. While one ran our IDs, the other had his gun drawn while a second cruiser pulled up and two more cops got out with their guns drawn. Apparently they were looking for three White males in a blue Chevy window van exactly like the one we were in. And judging by the cops initial demeanor, the guys they were looking for apparently weren't the friendly type.

And despite my alleged but highly mythical "White privilege", I've been pulled over by the cops for what could basically be called driving the "wrong kind of car" in the wrong neighbourhood. Although none of those incidents involved any flashing of firearms.

You should see what we do to jaywalkers and traffic offenders in Austin.

Well, black and brown ones, anyhow.

Actually, I saw a video awhile back. It showed a large group of teens jaywalking. All of them were White except one Black guy. Guess who the cops decided to stop and give a f*cking lecture to. He didn't get a fine but I thought it was funny (not ha-ha funny) that out of a few dozen people "breaking the law" the cops single out the only Black guy. Even the other kids started busted the cops' balls about it. That part was ha-ha funny.

 

[DaSleeper]

Um, if you read the story, it appears the officer was familiar with the individual through his position in the High Risk Offender Unit. I'm thinking the driver was already known to the police for other activities that don't include driving with a suspended licence.

Plus the guy was driving a car not registered to him,...methinks TBone is just trolling you:lol:

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Hell, back in the '80s my buddies and I got pulled over by the cops. While one ran our IDs, the other had his gun drawn while a second cruiser pulled up and two more cops got out with their guns drawn. Apparently they were looking for three White males in a blue Chevy window van exactly like the one we were in. And judging by the cops initial demeanor, the guys they were looking for apparently weren't the friendly type.

And despite my alleged but highly mythical "White privilege", I've been pulled over by the cops for what could basically be called driving the "wrong kind of car" in the wrong neighbourhood. Although none of those incidents involved any flashing of firearms.

Argument by anecdote. Essentially "The mountain of evidence that non-whites are pulled over more often, searched more often, and arrested more often (proportionally) than whites is completely rebutted by the fact that a white guy was once pulled over."

Actually, I saw a video awhile back. It showed a large group of teens jaywalking. All of them were White except one Black guy. Guess who the cops decided to stop and give a f*cking lecture to. He didn't get a fine but I thought it was funny (not ha-ha funny) that out of a few dozen people "breaking the law" the cops single out the only Black guy. Even the other kids started busted the cops' balls about it. That part was ha-ha funny.

I thought you just said white privilege was a myth.

 

[Jinentonix]

Argument by anecdote. Essentially "The mountain of evidence that non-whites are pulled over more often, searched more often, and arrested more often (proportionally) than whites is completely rebutted by the fact that a white guy was once pulled over."

Yep, that's my argument all right. Just stating that cops don't just pull over people of colour for stupid reasons means that it happens more for Whites than Blacks.

I thought you just said white privilege was a myth.

Two racists doth not White privilege make. I just realized I forgot to mention the video was from somewhere in Texas.

Do you know why the police are less effective than they used to be? Because what was once criminal profiling is now called racial profiling because sad to say, a small minority of Black people are responsible for over 50% of the homicides and other violent crimes in the US. And that small minority tends to be Black males within a particular age range.

Look, BLM protests the killing of Black people by a group that is responsible for about 4% of all the Black people killed in any given year. Now, the murder of those who weren't doing anything wrong and weren't known as high risk rightly should be protested, no matter the skin colour of the victim. By the way, Black people kill a higher percentage of cops than the reverse.
When you point out that police kill roughly twice as many White people as Black people, you get told that the deaths of Black people account for 27% of all those killed by police while representing only 13% of the population.

But then the stats become a little less "PC". In 2015, that 13% of the population were responsible for 52% of all homicides and 55% of all other violent crimes in the US. Now, it's a pretty reasonable assumption that most of those crimes were committed by Black males, although there are some females as well. But let's call it 6.5% of the population that's responsible for those crimes.

Going back to your original claim about skin colour and getting stopped by the cops. There is absolutely no question that if you're Black, especially a Black male, you're more likely to be stopped by the police and the stats certainly bear that out. After that though, skin colour has little bearing on how things go. I've seen plenty of video footage of White people being assaulted by the police back at the station and/or in holding. One guy was handcuffed with his hands behind his back around a chair. About the first thing in the video you see is some fat, White pig giving him a forearm smash to the head, driving it into the wall he was sat beside. Then you see him lose consciousness and his head slides down the wall leaving a rather sizable smear of blood behind it.
I've seen many more examples of that kind of behaviour as well.

People who try to turn this into a purely racial problem are actually part of the problem and the media plays a HUGE role in it. Remember when Alton Stirling was killed by police? That same day across the US, 6 White people and 2-3 Latinos were also killed by cops. Never heard about any of them on the news did ya?
How about the autistic 6 yr old White kid who was shot in the head by a Black cop trying to execute an illegal warrant? Did you see the MSM fapping themselves over that? No, me neither.

How about Dillon Taylor, killed by a Black cop just days after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. No MSM on that either. In fact some dimwit reporter in Ferguson was even trying to suggest that some orange, used ear plugs he saw laying on the ground were actually spent rubber bullets. Yeah, because that's more important than a Black cop murdering somebody White.
How about the Australian tourist gunned down by a Somali-American cop through the passenger side window of his cruiser? Funny how fast the MSM moved on from that story, huh?
How about David Kassick? Shot twice in the back as he lay face down in the snow all over some recently expired emissions and inspection stickers. The female cop was acquitted by a grand jury. Did the MSM cover that for days? Nope, it barely got any mention.
Then again, maybe it's because there weren't any flames for the MSM to fan because White people weren't trashing, looting and burning down their own neighbourhoods over those deaths.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Do you know why the police are less effective than they used to be?

Is that an opinion, or do you have data to back it up?

Because what was once criminal profiling is now called racial profiling because sad to say, a small minority of Black people are responsible for over 50% of the homicides and other violent crimes in the US. And that small minority tends to be Black males within a particular age range.

You understand, I hope, that even if your alleged facts are true, using that as a basis for harassing black people generally is both statistically invalid and unConstitutional.

Look, BLM protests the killing of Black people by a group that is responsible for about 4% of all the Black people killed in any given year. Now, the murder of those who weren't doing anything wrong and weren't known as high risk rightly should be protested, no matter the skin colour of the victim. By the way, Black people kill a higher percentage of cops than the reverse.

No, BLM protests the unaccountability of police. If what you say is true, BLM wouldn't have been involved in the protests following the killing of Justine Damond. But her friends and family say BLM were the first ones there.

When you point out that police kill roughly twice as many White people as Black people, you get told that the deaths of Black people account for 27% of all those killed by police while representing only 13% of the population.

Do you have a problem with that. Does this not mean that the rate of police killing blacks is double the rate of police killing whites?

But then the stats become a little less "PC". In 2015, that 13% of the population were responsible for 52% of all homicides and 55% of all other violent crimes in the US. Now, it's a pretty reasonable assumption that most of those crimes were committed by Black males, although there are some females as well. But let's call it 6.5% of the population that's responsible for those crimes.

Don't you mean 52% of the solved homicides?

Going back to your original claim about skin colour and getting stopped by the cops. There is absolutely no question that if you're Black, especially a Black male, you're more likely to be stopped by the police and the stats certainly bear that out. After that though, skin colour has little bearing on how things go. I've seen plenty of video footage of White people being assaulted by the police back at the station and/or in holding. One guy was handcuffed with his hands behind his back around a chair. About the first thing in the video you see is some fat, White pig giving him a forearm smash to the head, driving it into the wall he was sat beside. Then you see him lose consciousness and his head slides down the wall leaving a rather sizable smear of blood behind it.
I've seen many more examples of that kind of behaviour as well.

People who try to turn this into a purely racial problem are actually part of the problem and the media plays a HUGE role in it. Remember when Alton Stirling was killed by police? That same day across the US, 6 White people and 2-3 Latinos were also killed by cops. Never heard about any of them on the news did ya?

This is an interesting claim. I hear about white people being killed or abused by the cops on a regular basis. And I hear people in Canada claim that the media never reports on the police abusing whites, though somehow they heard (in Canada) about American cops abusing whites thousands of kilometres away. I can only conclude that they learn of this through telepathy, seeing as how they claim the media don't report on it.

How about the autistic 6 yr old White kid who was shot in the head by a Black cop trying to execute an illegal warrant? Did you see the MSM fapping themselves over that? No, me neither.

Then how do you know about it? I heard all about it. Through the media. I kinda suspected that the reason the media quieted it down pretty quickly was because they were suspended, arrested, and charged tout de suite, rather than the cops and prosecutors covering and making excuses for them. But I guess I was wrong, now that you've explained that the real reason is because whites are the victims of systematic oppression in American society.

How about Dillon Taylor, killed by a Black cop just days after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. No MSM on that either.

I read about it in the Washington Post. How did you learn about it?

In fact some dimwit reporter in Ferguson was even trying to suggest that some orange, used ear plugs he saw laying on the ground were actually spent rubber bullets. Yeah, because that's more important than a Black cop murdering somebody White.
How about the Australian tourist gunned down by a Somali-American cop through the passenger side window of his cruiser? Funny how fast the MSM moved on from that story, huh?

She wasn't a tourist.

You just cited the international coverage of a white person killed by a black cop to support the proposition that the media doesn't report on white people killed by cops. Do you really think the Justine Damond case wasn't extensively covered in the press? Seriously?

OK, I'm out. You are flat-out nuts.

 

[DaSleeper]

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