Michigan Man Pulled Over for Making “Direct Eye Contact” With Cop

A Michigan man says an Ohio police officer pulled him for looking at him the wrong way. According to WXYX-Detroit, John Felton was in Dayton, Ohio over the weekend for a family gathering when a cop began following him. He believes the officer profiled his Michigan license plate and waited for an excuse to pull him over.

"My brother had his seat belt on and everything and I was like, 'this cop is following me, I don't know why he's following me, I'm going to make sure I don't do anything to make him pull me over," he told an ABC affiliate in Dayton.

The cop told Fenton the reason he was pulled over is because he waited too long to turn on his turn signal and that he had looked at him wrong. “You made direct eye contact with me,” the officer is heard saying in the video.

Fenton, a professional from Detroit, says he believes he was targeted because of his race.

The Dayton Police Department released a statement about the incident, saying that no officer has the right to pull someone over “for staring at them.”

A lawsuit is being considered in this matter.