Police graduate says he was racially profiled by cops

A Black man who recently graduated from a police academy said he was racially profiled after leaving a Dallas-area 7-Eleven convenience store last month.

According to Michael McQueen, Joshua Police Department officers accused him of illegally parking in an accessible spot.

McQueen said he is a disabled military veteran. The officers demanded to see his identification and told him he looked suspicious because he was wearing his police academy uniform with his duty belt equipped with his gun.

McQueen captured the May 22 incident on his body camera and uploaded the video to his Facebook account May 30. The 5-minute video has since gone viral after it was posted Wednesday on Reddit.

In the video, McQueen accuses police Capt. Scott Peters and Sgt. Shaun Fullagar of racially profiling him. McQueen was not detained, but he was not allowed to leave the parking lot.

The video begins with one of the officers repeatedly demanding to see McQueen’s identification. When McQueen asked the two officers whether they had probable cause, Peters explained that he did not have a “handicapped placard.”

McQueen encourages them to look at the disabled military veteran license plate on his vehicle. He repeatedly encouraged officers to run his license plate and to call the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which serves as the regulatory agency for all police officers in Texas.

At one point, McQueen attempts to leave.

Another officer who arrives on the scene tries to stop him. McQueen asks if he is being detained.

The officer doesn’t let him leave until his supervisors return.

“You’re feeling small now, aren’t you?” McQueen says in the video. “You shouldn’t run up on people. You have no probable cause.”