Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters intervened in a police traffic stop involving a black man in her home state of California.
Waters, 81, who is black, pulled her car over and got out when she saw law enforcement officers had stopped a man in Los Angeles, according to TMZ.
The California Democrat told a bystander who was recording her that “they stopped a brother, so I stopped to see what they [the police] were doing.”
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Waters also claimed that the police had threatened to give her a ticket over where she parked her car.
“They say I’m in the wrong place,” she said. “They’re going to give me a ticket, but that’s OK, as long as I watch them.”
Waters’s check-in on police, which the New York Post reported as happening on Friday, comes amid a national reckoning on police use of force and racial inequality following the death of George Floyd.
