Video shows a Black U.S. Army veteran questioned by Virginia police when a white resident came to the racist conclusion that a Black man sitting in his car must be committing a crime. Marlon Crutchfield was instead working as a real estate photographer when the nosy neighbor’s complaint attracted the attention of three cop vehicles on Dec. 21, 2020, Crutchfield said in the video he shot of Arlington County Police officers questioning him.
Crutchfield is shown defending himself in the video, which civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted Saturday. “I don’t need to show you my ID because I have not committed any crime,” Crutchfield told an officer. The officer responded that oftentimes police don’t see the crime happen but have to investigate it anyway, to which Crutchfield again said he was not providing an ID and asked would he be taken to jail. “I’m not taking you to jail sir,” the officer responded. “You’re escalating...”
