The Justice aren't blind, it has the eyes of the Judge

The Justice aren't blind, it has the eyes of the Judge

I just return from a court hearing where I was found guilty by Judge Lisa A.H, Johnson of the District Court of Maryland for Prince George's County located at Courthouse 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774. And here are the details of this court case.

On March, I was stopped by a county police officer. Having pulled me over, the officer approached me and demanded my Driver's license and vehicle registration but failed to tell me why he pulled me over and why he needed my Driver's license and vehicle registration. So I asked him, "Sir, why did you stop me" and he responded "because I am a police officer". I literarily begged him to tell me why he pulled me over but he did not bulge. He insisted that I must give him my driver's license and Registration first. I tried to make him understand that being a police officer is not enough to stop and profile a law abiding citizen but my logics were waste of time for him. So I gave him my driver's license and then reached my glove box compartment for my registration and he then told me that he stopped me because one of my break lights was out.

But because there were other documents and letters in my glove compartment I took me extra few seconds to find my vehicle registration. However, before I could pull the registration out the officer have already left for his service vehicle, but before he left he said to me "when you find the registration tap your horn and wave the registration and do not step out of the car." Just as he entered his car I tapped my horn and waved the registration. About 25 minutes later the Officer returned to me and I tried giving him my registration but he refused it saying that he does not need it because he found all my information using my driver's license. However, he issued me two tickets, one for repair order for the defective break light and the other, a $## ticket for not 'producing my registration on demand.'

So I challenged the $## ticket based on the fact that I produced my registration On Demand which is what the law stipulated but the police officer disagreed and Judge Lisa A.H. Johnson agreed with the officer that I did not produce my Registration on demand. In her ruling Judge Johnson said that On Demand means immediately. According to Judge Johnson, On Demand means instantaneous but I disagree.

The reason I challenge this $## ticket was not because of the monetary cost but because I believe the ticket was unjust, issued with malice and for the police officer's unprofessional conduct and intimidation. He issued me the $## ticket because I asked him why he stopped me. In the court the police officer said I argued with him without substantiating or giving the details of the argument. My asking why he stopped me may be the argument he stated before the court. In stating that I argued with him the Officer was exploiting Judge Johnson's bias in favor of the Police. In almost all her Judgments that I witnessed on this particular day, Judged Johnson treated the police as the victim and the citizen defendants like villains and brutes the police should be protected from.

But as I said, this police officer issued me this ticket just because I asked to know why he stopped me. But Judge Johnson saw it differently and I was neither surprise nor in pain in paying the ticket along with the court cost because it is a general belief that Blacks of African descent never receive justice neither from African American police officers nor from African American Judges when the parties involved are all blacks. I had wanted to appeal this judgment but the Judgment letter the court gave me did not advise me on appeal.