State v. Cross

I respectfully dissent.

The issue raised in the present case is stark and simple: Does being a black man who is wearing a black jacket and driving a car with a black companion near a crime scene give a police officer reasonable suspicion to justify the stop of the black man’s car? The majority would have us believe so but after a thorough review of the facts in this case the majority position is clearly untenable.

Just after 11:00 p.m. on March 1, 1986, Officer McCrary of the Columbia, Missouri Police Department received a call to go to the Deja Yu, located at the northeast corner of Seventh…