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A Woman Flashed A ‘White Privilege'
Card After Being Pulled Over. Now,
Officers Are In Trouble For Letting Her Go
By Mirna
Alsharif and The Associated Press
Two Anchorage police officers vio- lated department policy during a traffic stop last month when a woman in town for a rally by for- mer President Donald Trump showed them a “white privilege card” instead of a driver’s license and was not tick- eted,
the Anchorage
Daily
News reported.
However, it’s not clear what policy was violated or what, if any, disci- plinary actions the officers faced, because the department is treating it as a confidential per- sonnel matter, according to Anchorage Police Department Director of Community Relations Sunny Guerin.
Officers Nicholas Bowe and Charles Worland with the Impaired Driving Enforcement Unit conducted a traf- fic stop on July 7 “for a car weaving in the lane,” Guerin said. She didn’t identify the driver, who she said showed a "white privilege" card during the stop.
Bowe and Worland did not
immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday.
Days after the traffic stop, Mimi Israelah said in a Facebook post that she was pulled over for weaving at 3:43 a.m. while driving to a pizzeria in Anchorage after arriving on an early-morning flight from California for Trump’s rally.
She couldn’t find her driver’s license, she wrote in a now-deleted post.
“When I saw my White Privilege card, I gave to him if it’s ok,” she wrote. “He laughed and called his partner. It’s their first time to see a White Privileged (sic) card,” she said.
The top of the novelty card reads: “White
Privilege Card Trumps Everything.” Israelah in her Twitter biography describes herself as Pinay, or a woman of Filipino origin.
Israelah could not be reached for comment.
"Officers observed no signs of impair- ment," Guerin said. "No citations were issued."
Guerin added that officers are able to check if a per- son has a valid license with the help of a comput- er check, which Bowe and Worland did, she said.
A video of the encounter appar- ently taken by Israelah has been reposted on Twitter. Two offi- cers are seen standing outside her car window. She asks one, “You like my White Privilege card?” One officer says, “That’s
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