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A woman on TikTok surprised a Virginia police officer after reading him data she had collected on her six-month ticket log against people of color.
Charlotte Carter, 36, recently had a video go viral of herself talking to an officer who stopped her about how 80 percent of the people who stopped her in the last six months were black, despite the fact that she claimed that only 20 percent of the county’s residents are black.
According to 2021 census data, 25 percent of Chesterfield County, Virginia residents identify as Black or African American.
‘Only 20 per cent of Chesterfield’s population [County] it’s black,’ Carter tells the officer as he stands by his window. “I don’t know how he managed to fine 80 percent of minorities.”
Carter says she believes she was arrested in an act of intimidation over videos she posted on the app about alleged corruption within the local police force.
Charlotte Carter, 36, recently went viral on a video recording herself reciting how 80 percent of the people the officer who pulled her over in the last six months were black.
The video, released on Sunday, shows the woman reading to the officer, identified as ‘S Scott,’ her ticket history, which includes 250 tickets in the past six months that have resulted in court appearances. DailyMail.com searched for the officer’s full name.
Carter compared that to another officer he watched who only had 240 total traffic appearances in court all year.
“In the last six months, I had ticketed, since I did this a month or two ago, I had ticketed 250 people in Chesterfield who had gone to Chesterfield court,” he tells the officer.
The video, which is titled ‘racist cops retaliating’, has received more than a million views and has been liked by nearly 138,000 people.
‘Mister. Scott, you attract 80 percent of black people. I checked all their tickets for six months… only 20 per cent of the population of Chesterfield [County] it’s black,’ says Carter, questioning how the math adds up.
The woman continues to fill in the information on the ticket while accusing him of being ‘enthusiastic’ about targeting people of color.
“You sure write a lot of tickets,” Carter says as he hands the signed ticket back to her.
She said the officer’s stopping her could have been a coincidence, but she turned on her camera in case it wasn’t.
“When I was going to sign the ticket, I saw his name was S. Scott,” Carter said. “And when I saw S. Scott in that role, I turned on my camera to record.”
The video, which is titled ‘racist cops retaliating’, has received more than a million views and has been liked by nearly 138,000 people.
She said the officer’s stopping her could have been a coincidence, but she turned on her camera in case it wasn’t.
Carter, in an interview with the daily beast, provided the ticket documents. The records are also public and can be found on the Chesterfield District Court website.
The data showed that the man, who is a Virginia state trooper according to Chesterfield County police, had pulled over 53 drivers in six months, mostly in October.
30 were black, 13 were white, and 10 were listed without race. The Daily Beast reported that the last names of the 10 “sounded Hispanic or Arab.”
A local news outlet reported in October that the majority of drivers in Virginia are black or Latino.
The woman said she had investigated Scott and another officer just to see the makeup of their traffic stops in the area.
The woman, who calls herself a ‘vapersian princess’ on the video app, claimed that the officer had followed her for several miles before the stop.
The woman, who calls herself a ‘vapersian princess’ on the video app, claimed that the officer had followed her for several miles before the stop.
She said the officer, identified as ‘S Scott’, had followed her for two to three miles before finally pulling her over for an illegal right turn on red.
The Virginia resident says her dispute with police in the area began in 2022 when she began posting about alleged child abuse involving a friend’s son. She said she noticed the boy, who is biracial, was bruised and underweight.
The woman, who holds a license in practical nursing according to public records, said she felt compelled to involve law enforcement.
Carter, however, told the Daily Beast that he believes the police did not act as quickly as they should and that they did not take the case seriously because the boy’s father was black.
An arrest was eventually made, but Carter says it wasn’t until after he posted a TikTok in March about the situation and his repeated attempts to get police to intervene.
The TikTok video he posted received almost 5 million views and more than 630,000 likes. After that, he said, the police started showing up in everyday situations.
“I ended up trying to file for emergency custody, but the police started falsely arresting me,” he told the Daily Beast.
Carter told the outlet she has been pulled over by police “about 10 times” since she began speaking out about policing in the area.
Just weeks after her initial viral video, the woman was arrested for trespassing on her property, she says.
“They also added three additional charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for each of my three children because I encouraged them to trespass into our home,” Carter said.
Carter told the outlet she has been pulled over by police “about 10 times” since she began speaking out about policing in the area.
Court records show that she has been arrested five times and received multiple charges on those dates.
In April, Chesterfield County Police Chief Jeffrey Katz called out the woman for attention, without mentioning her name.
“Several people messaged me to share a series of TikTok videos created by a member of our community who genuinely seems to enjoy the attention he’s getting by stating that our department is indifferent to a child abuse allegation,” Katz wrote.
“Ultimately, at the conclusion of our investigation, we made an arrest in this case,” the chief said, saying he would not use his name so as not to give it “additional visibility.”
Katz doubled down, stating that he would not.stand by while someone sits behind a keyboard and tries to belittle the work our people do to keep the children of our community safe.’
Despite his arrests, Carter says he finds it “empowering” to call the police.
“The wheels of justice are very, very slow and it takes patience and persistence and not giving up,” Carter said. ‘I stand up for what I believe in at all costs. I am willing to die on this hill.
8News Richmond spoke with Katz in October and stated that racial profiling is “not a factor” in the department’s traffic stops.
He did not address the statistics raised by Carter, but said: “There is a gross disproportionality of black and Hispanic drivers who are killed behind the wheel in Virginia.”
The Daily Beast found out that Katz was the police chief of Boynton Beach, Florida, before moving to Virginia.
In 2017, four officers from his department were charged with beating an unarmed black man. The incident culminated in some calls for Katz to resign or be fired.
DailyMail.com contacted both the Virginia State Police and the Chesterfield County Police, but was unable to reach officials for comment at press time.