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   Empire star Taraji P. Henson took to Instagram to offer a public   
   apology to the Glendale Police Department after newly released   
   police video contradicts her claim that her son was racially   
   profiled and treated unfairly. She now says she ‘over reacted’   
   when she told Uptown Magazine that she was pulling her son from   
   USC and sending him to Howard University because of the incident.   
      
   “My child has been racially profiled. He was in Glendale,   
   California, and did exactly everything the cops told him to do,   
   including letting them illegally search his car. It was bogus   
   because they didn’t give him the ticket for what he was pulled   
   over for,” she said in the interview that was published last   
   week.   
      
   But on Friday the Los Angeles Times has released police video   
   which countered the Oscar-nominated actress’ story. The footage   
   from Oct. 18 2014 shows the officer driving in traffic about   
   10:10 p.m. in Glendale when Henson drives through a lighted   
   crosswalk as a person walks across.   
      
   When the officer approaches the car, Johnson hands the officer   
   his insurance information and says he’s never been arrested. He   
   says his name is Marcell Johnson, and his mother is actress   
   Taraji P. Henson.   
      
   Johnson later confesses to the officer that he is in possession   
   of state-issued medical marijuana (but couldn’t find his   
   marijuana license), and a prescription pill, Ritalin, that a   
   friend gave him.   
      
   “You know you’re not supposed to have that, right?” the officer   
   told him.   
      
   Johnson then let the officer search his car.   
      
   He later revealed to officers that he had smoked marijuana two   
   hours before driving, at which point a sobriety test was   
   performed. He passed the test.   
      
   The officer appeared to cut Johnson a break by giving him a   
   citation for possessing marijuana, instead of a traffic   
   violation which would have more damaging effect to his driving   
   record.   
      
   “I am not going to give you a citation for running that yellow   
   because that would actually put a moving violation on your   
   driving license, and you are going to have to go to traffic   
   school and all that stuff, so I am helping you by not giving you   
   a violation on it.   
      
   All I am going to do is take the weed from you,” he said.   
      
   The video of the incident went viral forcing Henson to make the   
   following  statement in a social media post.   
      
   https://thegrio.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/henson-   
   apology.jpg?w=513&h=513   
      
   “I would like to publicly apologize to the officer and the   
   Glendale Police Department,” she said in an Instagram message   
   after the paper released the video. “A mother’s job is not easy   
   and neither is a police officer’s. Sometimes as humans we   
   overreact without gathering all the facts. As a mother in this   
   case, I overreacted and for that I apologize. Thank you to that   
   officer for being kind to my son.”   
      
   http://thegrio.com/2015/03/28/taraji-p-henson-apologizes-to-   
   police-for-claiming-her-son-was-racially-profiled/   
      
   You're still a no good lying black whore, taraji.  Oh, and you   
   ain't no "star" either.   
      
       
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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