BEYONCE KNOWLES/CARTER IS GIVEN a TICKET for TEXTING WHILE DRIVING in NEW YORK CITY

BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
New York, New York
July 29, 2010
(BBNS)

Last month, the beautiful gorgeous Beyonce was given a ticket for texting by a New York City police officer. Beyonce claims that she didn't know that texting was illegal in New York. The ticket is well over $ 100 dollars, which could create a significant undue hardship for Beyonce relative to her ability to pay said fine.
It just seems a little strange that this police officer would single out Beyonce for enforcement of the New York State's poorly crafted Anti-Texting Law, when most people in the Big Apple text and talk on their cell phones all the time while driving.
How many people in the city of New York or in the State have received tickets for texting? I would like to see the data for these types of incidents. The officer who gave Beyonce the ticket could have had an ulterior motive in issuing the ticket. I trust very few police officers in New York City in light of the Sean Bell case and because of a whole litany of African Americans and Hispanics who were the victims of police murders, cover-ups and police brutality. New York City has the reputation as the police brutality capital of America.
I have seen municipal bus drivers texting and talking on cell phones while driving various buses in other cities. Further I have witnessed truckers in big rigs texting while driving and they have never been cited for texting. They don't have enough police officers in any city and definitely not in New York City or in the State of New York to enforce the state's texting law. So why was this law enacted in the first place? The lawmakers in New York State should have known that the law they passed (texting) could not be enforced in a non-discriminatory manner. Or didn't they care! Now police officers have the absolute authority to pick and choose who they want to give tickets to in a highly discriminatory fashion? In the case of Beyonce, it appears as though this is a classic case of selective enforcement of a law that cannot be uniformly and fairly enforced.
It is a basic truism that no one should text or talk on a cell phone while driving a motor vehicle. It's just simply hazardous to one's health and safety. If you are talking or texting while driving, it takes your mind off what you're doing behind the wheel. Accidents can happen in a split second. When you are driving any type of motor vehicle, your attention should be 100 per cent devoted to driving that vehicle.

The statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that a high rate of accidents have occurred while individuals were texting and talking on cell phones, blue tooth's or other types of automobile and truck phones.
How many of you text and talk on your cell phones when driving a motor vehicle? The life you save may be your own.