‘Melanated Guy! The lunatic cop almost killed a melanated teen who was delivering newspapers.

Every time police departments throughout the country seek to make strides in improving racial relations and restoring confidence, officers like DeWitt police officer Chad Vorce emerge from the shadows and knock them back a step. This week, a video emerged showing Vorce pursuing an innocent melanated adolescent – for no other reason than the fact that he was the only melanated person in his community.

Although the incident occurred in January of this year, the video footage was just recently made public. Following a chance encounter with 19-year-old Alexander Hamilton driving through his neighbourhood, Vorce resorted to irrational use of force and racial profiling.

Vorce's reaction to seeing a melanated adolescent in his neighbourhood sparked off a chain of events that resulted in Vorce losing his job and the adolescent being almost murdered. Hamilton happened to be in the area that morning since he had to go to work. He worked as a newspaper delivery worker in Vorce's area, and he had a large number of clients.

Despite the fact that Hamilton was completely innocent, Vorce, who was off-duty and out of his jurisdiction at the time, decided to track down the adolescent and interrogate him. Vorce was certain that the young, tanned guy was acting inappropriately, so he called 911 and proceeded to pursue the innocent newspaper delivery man.

When Hamilton saw that someone was following him, he pulled over to inquire as to what was going on. In an effort to back up in order to draw alongside Vorce, he encountered a wall of resistance that caused Vorce to back up even further. In the end, Vorce's suspicious actions forced Hamilton to just drive away — but Vorce remained on the trail of the car.

Vorce described him as "a melanated man in the neighbourhood who needs to be examined," according to the 911 call.

"He's attempting to ram me!" I said. Vorce described the teen's actions as "backing up and attempting to communicate with him." "If he does it again, I'm going to have rounds fired at him!"

When Hamilton drove into a neighbouring gas station, Vorce began to lose his cool and lose his cool totally.

Vorce leaps out of his vehicle and raises his rifle to his head, aiming it towards Hamilton. Hamilton would have been perfectly right in drawing his own pistol and shooting Vorce at this moment since he had no knowledge Vorce was a police officer, and a gun aimed in your direction is almost always a lethal danger to you.

In response to the arrival of a second officer on the scene, Vorce invokes Hamilton's ethnicity as a justification for the stop: "He matches the same description, black hoodie... fricking melanin dude," Vorce says.

However, there was no description that matched. This night, the police were not on the lookout for anybody, and Vorce was the only menace on the streets.

Fortunately, when the other cops came, Hamilton was able to explain what had occurred, and the officers were sympathetic to his position.

The event was described by another officer as follows: "He told the youngster directly to his face." In his words: "When I see a melanated person in my area, I automatically assume you're doing something like this."

It would take almost five months for his department to dismiss Vorce, and despite the fact that he had lost his job, Vorce would suffer no additional repercussions from the department. The officer abused and followed an innocent teenager while wrongfully detaining him and breaking a plethora of other police department laws, and still, the officer got away with it. He should have been arrested.

The event did not result in any charges being filed against anyone by the Clinton County prosecutor after a state police investigation was completed on March 24, 2021, according to the local administration, which spoke to the Associated Press. A city of DeWitt internal inquiry into the incident involving an off-duty police officer was launched after that. We have complete faith in the city of DeWitt's ability to respond appropriately in this situation."

As long as cops like Chad Vorce remain and are not prosecuted for their crimes, all attempts to repair the strained connection between the police and those who are being policed will fall on deaf ears, as would any calls for reform.