Sorry For What!? Alabama Judge Orders Black Man To Apologize To Cop For Cursing Or Spend Up To 30 Days In Jail

First, let’s start with how this whole ridiculous drama unfolded.

AL.com reports that Burks was pulled over on Dec.13. 2023 for “speeding” while taking his kids to school, and that’s when things went left.

The officer said his radar gun was broken, so he used cruise control to estimate the speed, Burks said.

“And I told him he was full of crap because there’s no way that he clocked my speed by cruise control,” Burks said.

Things went downhill from there. The officer gave Burks the ticket, and then stood in front of his car, Burks said, forcing the driver to back up and go around him.

So, just to recap; an officer who couldn’t really prove a Black man who was taking his daughters to school was speeding, gave him a ticket anyway, stood in front of his car after the stop should have been over, and now a judge wants the Black man to apologize for getting frustrated with the whole thing and talking a little slick to the cop otherwise his freedom gets taken away? Even if we were to ignore the myriad of instances where white motorists and pedestrians left a scene unscathed and unpunished after they berated, cursed out, and disrespected a cop, it would still feel like Burks is getting the uppity negro treatment from authorities that want him to know his place.