LA City Council president wears thinly-veiled message as hes spotted for first time since police stop disgrace
Los Angeles City Council’s under fire president broke cover on Sunday with a t-shirt promoting three goals everyone should aspire to.“Drink Water, Love Hard and Fight Racism”, the black top said in white lettering.Marqueece Harris-Dawson, 56, who represents District 8, is in the spotlight after delivering an emotionally-charged testimony at City Hall claiming he was the subject of a racially-biased police stop.But, as the California Post reported, he was pulled over for doing a U-turn in a school zone — and sources said he even called a Los Angeles Unified School District boss to try to get out of a citation.On Sunday the Post found Harris-Dawson driving in the same government-issued Tesla back to his home following the scandal.He had the message flashed across his t-shirt as he walked up his driveway to his modest house in south Los Angeles.The sighting comes a week after the council president delivered emotional testimony at City Hall describing what he claimed was a racially biased police stop.During the council hearing Harris-Dawson told colleagues he had been pulled over and questioned about his job, saying the incident illustrated the dangers of so called pretextual traffic stops by the LAPD.But according to sources close to the event, the stop was not conducted by LAPD, it was carried out by officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department during morning drop off near a high school.Officials said that Harris-Dawson had first caught the officer’s attention while driving erratically on the freeway.Police say he then exited directly in front of the patrol car and crossed a center divider to make an illegal U-turn before being pulled over near the school as students were arriving.He was issued a citation for the moving violation.The ticket carries a $238 fine and adds a point to a driver’s DMV record.Sources also told the Post that during the stop Harris-Dawson contacted a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board in what appeared...