DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit police agency is putting its employees through training on HIV and AIDS after a videotaped traffic stop shows an officer telling a woman he was writing a ticketing because she say she's HIV positive before he searched her vehicle.
Dearborn police Chief Ronald Haddad tells The Detroit News (http://bit.ly/SAnhSi ) he takes the matter "very seriously" and is investigating the Aug. 3 stop.
The 29-minute video posted on YouTube shows the officer telling passenger Shalandra Jones and her driver he's ticketing them because he's "aggravated" Jones didn't disclose her HIV status before he searched their SUV over a broken tail light.
The officer says he doesn't "want to catch something" and "has a family."
Casual contact doesn't spread HIV and AIDS.
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Online:
Video of traffic stop: http://bit.ly/Vc9qHM
