CT HOUSE BILL

 

 

 

September 30, 2015

by Michael Levin

 

 

You're African American, you're shoveling snow in your own driveway, and a white cop from another jurisdiction pulls up.

 

Without as much as hello, he asks you if you're trying to make a few bucks for the holidays.

 

What do you do?

A) Sue for a million dollars.

 

On Friday, former Major League Baseball player and current ESPN baseball analyst Doug Glanville wrote a Facebook post in response to the recent incident involving former professional tennis player James Blake.

 

 

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)–It’s been called a case of “shoveling while black” an incident involving a former pro baseball star who claims he was racially profiled in his own driveway.

 

ESPN Sports analyst Doug Glanville took his encounter with a West Hartford police officer to a national forum on race and the police and tonight there’s a new law on the books because of it.

 

 

HARTFORD–With his wife by his side, former MLB  player and current ESPN analyst Doug Glanville looked on as Gov. Dan Malloy signed a new bill into law.

 

“What gave rise to these circumstances quite frankly shouldn’t have happened,” Malloy said before he signed the bill.

 

 

ESPN analyst Doug Glanville concedes current events might seem to have diminished the importance of the piece he published April 14, 2014, in The Atlantic: “I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway.”

 

Governor Dannel Malloy signs Connecticut House Bill 6863 into law at a ceremony on Monday, August 10, 2015.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

August 7, 2015, Hartford, CT... In the state of Connecticut, local police can no longer cross town lines to enforce their own local ordinances. The Connecticut House bill, drafted by Connecticut State Representative Matthew Ritter and spurred by an incident involving one of Ritter’s constituents, former Major League Baseball player Doug Glanville, is now law.