Congresswoman Maxine Waters jumps out of her car to aid black man being detained by cops at traffic stop

Erica Davies

CONGRESSWOMAN Maxine Waters intervened during a traffic stop involving a black driver to ensure cops were doing their job properly.

The representative was driving in her district in California on Friday when she spotted a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s patrol car.

The officers were in the process of detaining a black man, prompting her to immediately hit the brakes and hop out of her car, according to TMZ.

Waters’ presence was apparently not well received, as she said the sheriff’s deputies told her she was illegally parked and in danger of getting a ticket.
A short clip of the moment was posted on Facebook.

Waters explains to the person filming that she was curious to see what officers were up to once she realized they had stopped the black man.

“They stopped a brother, so I stopped to see what they were doing,” she told the cameraperson.

“They said I’m in the wrong place and that they’re going to give me a ticket,” she continued.

“That’s okay as long as I watch them,” Waters said.

“Gotta do what they gotta do! Make sure!” a woman can be heard saying off-camera.

The congresswoman then waves at the person filming the video.

Waters, a staunch advocate of policing reform, pushed for the removal of chokeholds in national law enforcement tactics earlier this month.

She told Spectrum News that it’s time for the country to focus on the fact that “another young black man, unarmed, has been killed by someone who is supposed to protect and serve.”

“It needs to be done all over the nation and any iteration of that, whether it is the arm or the knee or a piece of equipment, used to cut off the breathing to interfere with the ability for those who are the victims of these tactics to be killed,” she said on July 2.

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