It is obvious why two plainclothes Lehigh County detectives in an unmarked car followed and stopped Christopher Fitzgerald on MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township last August. It is also obvious why Mr. Fitzgerald, who was with his girlfriend, showed that he had a gun in the car. He was scared, and well he might be. He is a black guy.
The fact that he was the son of the police chief of Allentown meant nothing. The fact that he had broken no traffic laws meant nothing. He was Driving While Black, and that’s reason enough to pull him over.
A jury found Mr. Fitzgerald not guilty of any crime. He had been offered a deal in which he was to plead guilty for stuff he didn’t do. The prosecutor probably couldn’t believe a jury in Lehigh County composed mostly of whites (maybe all white, for all I know) would find him not guilty.
But they did. I think the average white American is starting to see what black people have seen for years.
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