CT HOUSE BILL

 

Former MLB player and current ESPN analyst Doug Glanville joined the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR to discuss his "shoveling while black" incident, and the resulting legislation currently in the state senate that would limit the jurisdiction of municipal police officers who are enforcing local ordinances.

 

The bill was introduced in the House after an incident involving former Major League Baseball player and current ESPN analyst Doug Glanville. 

 

March 12, 2015, Hartford, CT...There will be a public hearing held on Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:30am at Hartford Public High School to introduce a bill concerning the cross jurisdictional enforcement of local municipal ordinances. The bill, drafted by Connecticut State Representative Matthew Ritter, clarifies the scope of jurisdictional enforcement of alleged offenses at the local municipality level.

 

 

A recent essay on the Atlantic website characterized the West Hartford Police Department as biased and unprofessional because the author, Doug Glanville, an African American, said one of the town's officers profiled him.

 

After nearly two decades with this agency, I know that nothing could be further from the truth. It made me think, however, about bias and the danger of assumptions.

 

 

 

 

West Hartford Police are defending the actions of an officer who has been accused of racial profiling by former MLB player Doug Glanville.

 

The allegations were made public on Monday in a column by Glanville but date back to Feb. 18, 2014, when the unidentified officer was investigating a complaint of a suspicious male on Concord Street. 

 

WEST HARTFORD — Former Major League Baseball player Doug Glanville's essay saying that he was racially profiled in the driveway of his Hartford home has gone viral.

 

Glanville, who now works as an ESPN baseball analyst, posted the essay Monday on TheAtlantic.com.