Dancing Car Chase Suspect Lucky To Be a White Woman

Posted by | September 1, 2015 20:00 | Filed under: Contributors Tommy Christopher

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Kelsey Wood is being held on $75,000 bail for the charge of “felony evading,” but the 25 year-old Angeleno is lucky to be alive. Wood shot to instant fame last week when she led the LAPD on a wild car chase through downtown Los Angeles that ended when police spike strips destroyed the car’s tires. Surrounded by police, Wood got out of the car and achieved instant viral immortality:

The obvious hook to this video is the impromptu dance number as Future’s “Where Ya At” blares from the stereo, but it wasn’t long before Kelsey’s relatively uneventful apprehension was decried as an example of white privilege. In the era of #BlackLivesMatter, the almost nonchalant way the police approached the car and took custody of someone who was a real threat stood in stark contrast with the treatment that people like Sandra Bland have received. Prominent BLM activist DeRay McKesson remarked “surrounded by officers near/in the stolen car after the car chase ends, she dances. & lives. watch whiteness work.”

But the problem with this incident goes deeper than…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

26 responses to Dancing Car Chase Suspect Lucky To Be a White Woman

  1. Hirightnow September 1st, 2015 at 20:24

    I saw at least 4 times when she “reached for a weapon”,,,
    What’s up, guys? I thought #coplivesmatter? Why didn’t you guys protect yourselves?

  2. Sawboss! September 1st, 2015 at 21:37

    So?? Why didn’t you fight in the Vietnam WAR Alan?

    • Roctuna September 1st, 2015 at 21:39

      I’m guessing because he was in his early teens or maybe younger? WTF is that supposed to mean?

      • BigDumbWhiteGuy September 1st, 2015 at 22:04

        Alan was born in 1950. Sorry that I can’t help with WTF Sawboss! means.

        • Roctuna September 1st, 2015 at 22:13

          I guess I could have looked up his bio. I’m stunned! Alan is older than dirt! I mean older than me! TV make up works wonders.

          • Carla Akins September 1st, 2015 at 23:00

            I’m guessing sawboss! could have as well. Since it states that Alan graduated college in 71, it’s likely he received a deferment for college, but that’s just conjecture on my part.

        • Sawboss! September 1st, 2015 at 22:28

          And my brothers were born in ’49 and ’50 and they both were drafted in ”68 and ’69!

      • Sawboss! September 1st, 2015 at 22:10

        My brothers were drafted when they were 18 in 1968 and 1969 dumb shit!

      • Sawboss! September 1st, 2015 at 22:13

        Can you do math?

        • Roctuna September 2nd, 2015 at 07:32

          I was educated in the post by BDWG. Can you read?

    • Carla Akins September 1st, 2015 at 22:41

      And this has to do what with this article? I deleted your 2 pending inflammatory pending comments and you have been banned from this site for the near future. You can email him, call into the show, visit him on his Google+, hell – hire a skywriter. However, screaming obscenities in the comment section has only accomplished getting yourself removed.

    • tracey marie September 1st, 2015 at 23:14

      a new troll.

    • Mike September 1st, 2015 at 23:49

      Did you…???
      I was 24 Infantry 68-69
      How about you…???

    • Gindy51 September 2nd, 2015 at 06:40

      Who gives a flying rat’s ass, troll?

    • MBJR September 2nd, 2015 at 10:02

      Yea what gives Alen? Why didn’t you go get yourself blowed up? For whatever reason you couldn’t make to the party, it just goes to show that we can’t trust a man that doesn’t have the will to KILL! Like our great leaders Johnson, Nixon and (Small) Bush, people that show great courage in sending people to die. You should be ashamed Alen!

  3. BigDumbWhiteGuy September 1st, 2015 at 22:03

    I don’t know. It seems like it took them a bit to go up to the car, but it doesn’t really look like they treated her with kid gloves to me.

    • allison1050 September 2nd, 2015 at 06:11

      If it had been a Black or Hispanic she would have been punched by most of the pigs there and kicked and more than likely 1 or 2 would have knelt on her back..this was gentle.

      • whatthe46 September 2nd, 2015 at 19:57

        they wouldn’t have even gotten that close. the moment they would have stepped out of the car, shots would have rang like it was fricken new years.

  4. greenfloyd September 2nd, 2015 at 01:45

    The OP, Tommy Christopher, implies it was race in the title. But then
    he admits, at the very end;

    After so many incidents in which the police acted unreasonably, it’s nice to see them show restraint when it would have been reasonable for them to use deadly force.For Whatever Reason.

    It seemed in this case that “restraint” could have gone very wrong. It’s a wonder Wood did not run somebody over with her stupid and reckless stunt. She could have had a gun… probably could have shot at least one or more of the exposed cops who moved in on her.

    • allison1050 September 2nd, 2015 at 06:09

      You must have read a different article by him.

  5. allison1050 September 2nd, 2015 at 06:08

    See how it works differently? Nothing like being white is there. There were 10-12 of them!

  6. Larry Schmitt September 2nd, 2015 at 07:25

    But wait, Bill O’Reilly has told me that white privilege doesn’t exist. Which one do I believe? I’m confused. (not really)

    • nola878 September 2nd, 2015 at 10:19

      He also tells me we live in a post racial America…Now I’m really confused!

  7. Pearl Polanski September 2nd, 2015 at 19:33

    How did they not think she was going for a weapon when she put her hands in her pockets and was reaching up under her shirt?

    • cwazycajun September 4th, 2015 at 10:44

      exactly I mthought the same thing if it was a black man or woman or Hispanic they would have unloaded their weapons without hesitation and she would be doin the dance of the dead

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