Police in Anchorage, Alaska were put on a spotlight recently because of a viral social media post of a woman who showed police officers her "white privilege card" instead of her license during a traffic stop, the Associated Press reported.
In a since-deleted Facebook post, Mimi Israelah said she was pulled over at around 3:43 am after she arrived in Anchorage for a rally by former President Donald Trump.
Israelah wrote that the officer asked for her license and she couldn't find it. "When I saw my White Privilege card, I gave to him if it's ok," she wrote. "He laughed and called his partner. It's their first time to see a White Privileged (sic) card," she said, according to the AP. In a screengrab of a video reportedly of Israelah's interaction posted on Twitter, she can be heard asking the officer: "You like my white privilege card?" In the video, the officer replied, "That's hilarious." The top of the card reads, "White Privilege Card Trumps Everything," according to screenshots of the post. On her social media accounts, Israelah described herself as Pinay, a woman of Filipino origin.
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