“We were not told why we were stopped but there’s a gun in our face” [You Were Stopped by White Salisbury Cops for failing to give a turn signal continuously during the last 100 feet of travel before turning = b/c you are Black]

From [HERE] Darryle Smith was pulled over for a traffic stop in Salisbury. He gave one officer his license and registration. Another officer pointed a gun at him and his two friends who were in the car, he said.

“We have not been told why we’re being stopped, but there’s a gun in our face,” Smith said.

Smith and friends Julian Washington and Brian Louck were searched in the early morning of Aug. 24, along with the car, and nothing illegal was found, Smith said.

They still didn’t know why the car had been stopped. Smith ended up with a traffic-violation warning for failing to give his turn signal continuously during the last 100 feet of travel before turning.

Smith, 21, of Bryans Road, Maryland, Louck, 20, of Edgewater, Maryland, and Washington, 21, of Gambrills, Maryland, have filed a lawsuit against Salisbury Police Officer Justin Aita, the Salisbury Police Department and the city of Salisbury.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, the third lawsuit in a month to be filed against the Salisbury Police Department and Officer Justin Aita. The lawyers representing Smith, Washington and Louck are James Otway and Luke Rommel, and Rommel is also representing the other two sets of plaintiffs who filed lawsuits against the police department and Aita in September.