Cops Framing Suspects: My Take on Why Every Traffic Stop Is Terrifying

A Florida officer getting 12 years in prison for planting drugs on suspects triggered me and probably you too.

Garfield Hylton
Momentum
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6 min readJul 29, 2021

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A police officer makes a traffic stop. Photo: Getty Images

Being pulled over by the police scares me to death. Long before Philando Castille, Sandra Bland, and Walter Scott — all Black people who wound up dying after a…

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Garfield Hylton
Momentum

Medium Creator Fellow. Award-winning TV news journalist. Freelance writer. Mad question asker.