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August 2, 2012

T.J. Holmes
T. J. Holmes

Tweeting While Black

Black Entertainment Television host T. J. Holmes tweeted on Monday that he was angry that two Georgia sheriff’s deputies pulled him over for no reason a mile from his home in the Atlanta suburbs.

“I’m still pissed beyond words right now, but Lord knows I’m not the only one this happened to today,” Holmes tweeted on http://www.tjholmes.net.

Holmes tweeted a running account of the incident. He photographed one of the cop cars from his rear-view mirror with the caption, “Driving while black ain’t no joke.” He added, “Yep,  [I’m] sitting on the side of the road 1 mile from my house with 2 cop cars behind me.”

He later tweeted that the officer had yet to give a reason for why he was stopped.

“This is a damn shame. [The] officer is literally stumbling over his words trying to explain why he stopped me,” Holmes said.

Finally, the cops provided him a hurriedly made-up excuse.

Holmes said the cop’s reason for pulling him over was “ ‘to make sure [I] have insurance on the the car.’ I kid you not,” tweeted Holmes, who added that he managed to stay out of jail but that his relationship with the county police may have just soured a bit. The last part of the sentence included the Twitter hashtag, #showmeyourpapers, which Holmes added to mock the police.

A long-time CNN host, Holmes recently left the network in December for a show on BET. His late-night show, ”Don’t Sleep With T. J. Holmes,” is scheduled to debut later this year on BET Networks.

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