Whose safety?
Missouri and Kansas police departments have worked to improve highway safety the past two weeks by cracking down on seat belt enforcement during the annual Click It or Ticket campaign. Kansas City drivers have seen a higher police presence and more pullovers during some of the busiest travel days of the year. And drivers ticketed for skipping the belt can expect a $10 to $60 fine.
Unless you’re a white nationalist. In which case, you can expect a police escort and for officers to stand by as you pile into the back of a U-Haul from Texas, sans safety restraint. (May 30, 1A, “Police let white nationalists go ‘unbothered,’ witness says”) Patriot Front members and pals demonstrated this strange legal loophole last weekend.
As for me, I have little energy for angry white boys who want to cosplay as militiamen instead of participating in the annual Memorial Day barbecue and home improvement blitz like the rest of us. But I’ve spent the last week marveling at KCPD’s enthusiasm for personal driving safety, only to be shocked as officers stood by while dozens of men crowded into the back of a van right in front of them, without comment…