Black Professor Fears Safety as Police to Release Home Address

The Black Princeton professor who was handcuffed to a desk by two white police officers over a three-year-old parking ticket said Wednesday that she is now at risk of having her home address publicly released.

“My home address apparently is visible in the video Princeton Police plan to release,” the African-American Studies professor Imani Perry wrote on her Twitter account Wednesday. “I am asking them publicly to consider the risk for me.”

Earlier, Perry announced on her Twitter account that the Princeton Police said that they planned to release the video of the incident after an outpouring of support for Perry on social media, as well as harassment and widespread criticism of the officers’ actions as racist discrimination.

“I don’t know what to expect besides greater backlash,” Perry wrote upon learning the news the video would be made public. “I hope the Princeton Police have considered that this will lead to more threats and slurs being directed towards me.”

Perry described feeling “terrified and depressed” in light of the development, adding that she hoped the police were “satisfied” with her state.

“I have children Princeton Police,” Perry implored the police department with a mention on Twitter over fears her personal address could be released. “Please do not put them at risk.”

She invited police and others to look up the comments and harassment that have been directed at her online as a demonstration of why she feels she has reason to fear her personal information going public.

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After making the statements on Twitter, Perry deactivated her account. “I deactivated my Twitter account,” she wrote on Facebook. “People are trying to hack it.”

Perry’s haters have shamed her for speaking out against mistreatment, arguing that she got what she deserved. Perry described the harassment as “unrelenting.”

On Sunday, Perry says she was body-searched by a male police officer and then handcuffed to a desk after a routine traffic stop led to two officers, a man and a woman, discovering that she had two unpaid parking violations from 2013 that had morphed into a warrant for her arrest.

“The police treated me inappropriately and disproportionately,” Perry wrote in a statement the day after the incident. “The fact of my blackness is not incidental to this matter.”

Perry received a personal message from a white woman professor who had found herself in a similar situation with the police, but experienced very different treatment.

“They put me in a room, fingerprinted and processed me but were really nice about it,” wrote Professor Janice Fine, whose unpaid parking ticket had also turned into a warrant for her arrest, in the personal message that Perry posted on her Facebook account. “Sounds like disparate treatment for sure.”

Fine speculated in the message that the difference in how she was treated was because she is a white woman. Her six-year-old son was also in the vehicle when she was pulled over.

Perry hopes that the attention called to her incident will feed into a larger questioning of police officers’ action, particularly toward Black people.

“It was humiliating and frightening,” wrote Perry in her statement, “but I am not Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, or Tanisha Anderson. I was not murdered.”

She stated that she does not see her treatment as a local problem in Princeton, but a systemic issue of national and international proportions.

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