Cop's 'Your People' Comment is His Second Bias Complaint

The Cobb County police officer who allegedly tailed the county’s only black commissioner is in hot water again after dash cam video shows him making seemingly racist remarks during a traffic stop.

Officer Maurice Lawson pulled over black motorist Brian Baker on Mableton Parkway on Nov. 16 and was recorded on dash camera footage telling Baker to “Go back to Fulton County” and saying “I don’t want to hear about your people.”

Lawson issued Baker tickets for speeding and failure to maintain his lane, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Lawson has been reassigned and will be disciplined for his actions, a Cobb County police spokesman confirmed.

Cobb County police have formally apologized to Baker and have reduced his tickets to warnings.

Baker passed the footage of the encounter on to Cobb County Commissioner Lisa Cupid; Baker told WSB-TV the commissioner was ”very interested” in it.

Cupid, who is black, accused Lawson of tailing her in an unmarked police car in July. Cupid claimed in a memorandum to Chairman Tim Lee that Lawson’s unmarked car sped up as if to ram her twice, but was told by officers that Lawson had stopped all activity after he ran her plates and discovered who she was.

“That police officer was not there to protect and serve. He was there to harass and intimidate,” Cupid wrote in her memorandum. “I do not believe for one moment that a Lexus RX 330 would be tailed and intimidated by a police officer in East Cobb, West Cobb or North Cobb, Vinings, the Cumberland area: especially if the driver was white or a neighborhood of affluence.”

“If I did not serve in the position I am in, I would move. Instantly,” she wrote. “I did not move to my home to be subject to a police state.”