South Carolina: Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw was caught trying to exert her white privilege but the South Carolina police said Not Today
Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw, pictured here was slurring her words and her breathalyzer showed her blood alcohol level was 0.18 Bluffton, South Carolina Reported.
The 32 yr old woman was arrested for DUI, she told arresting officers that she shouldn't be arrested because she was a cheerleader, dancer, and sorority girl who has graduated from a "high accredited university.". She was taken to the police station handcuffed. She described herself as a white "thoroughbred" and "went on to say 'I'm a white, clean girl,'" the officer wrote in his report."I asked what that had to do with anything?" wrote the officer, who also is white.
She replied, "You're a cop, you should know what that means," and, "You're a cop, you should know based on the people that come in this room."
Also, "she repeatedly stated, 'my partner is a cop,'" and said she'd been trying to get to her boyfriend's house when she was pulled over early Saturday.
Cutshaw who is a real estate agent told police she had 2 glasses of wine at a high-class restaurant.
How full were the wine glasses? "I mean I was celebrating my birthday," she replied.
After another officer found marijuana and rolling papers in her Ford Fusion, she said she "may have" smoked pot earlier that evening as well, the report said.
Cutshaw was jailed on charges including drunken driving, speeding and marijuana possession, based in part on her own statements.
"Making statements such as these as a means to justify not being arrested are unusual in my experience as a law enforcement officer and I believe further demonstrate the suspect's level of intoxication," the officer wrote.
Bluffton is a town of about 21,000 residents about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Savannah, Georgia, and near South Carolina's Hilton Head Island
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