A woman on TikTok stunned a Virginia police officer after she read him data she had compiled on his ticketing record against people of color over six months.
Charlotte Carter, 36, recorded herself rattling off to an officer who pulled her over about how 80 percent of the people he had stopped in the last six months have been black, despite her claiming just 20 percent of the county’s residents are black.
‘Only 20 percent of the population of Chesterfield [County] is black,’ Carter tells the officer as he stands next to her window. ‘I don’t know how you managed to ticket 80 percent minorities.’
A local news outlet, however, offered some insight — reporting in October the majority of drivers in Virginia are black or Latino.
Carter says she believes she was pulled over in an act of intimidation for videos she has posted to the app discussing alleged corruption inside local law enforcement.
But she has been arrested, herself, multiple times by the Chesterfield police department — which now says she is just trying to get attention.
Charlotte Carter, 36, recently had a video go viral in which she records herself rattling off how 80 percent of the people the officer who had pulled her over in the last six months have been black
The video, posted Sunday, shows the woman reading the officer, identified as ‘S Scott’ his history of tickets, which include 250 tickets over the last six months resulting in court appearances. DailyMail.com reached out to find the officer’s full name.
Carter compared that to another officer she looked at who only had 240 total traffic appearances in court for the entire year.
‘The last six months, you had ticketed—from when I did this about a month or two ago—you had ticketed 250 people in Chesterfield that had gone to Chesterfield court,’ she tells the officer.
The video, which is captioned ‘racist cops retaliating’ has received more than one million views and has been liked by nearly 138,000 people.
‘Mr. Scott, you pull over 80 percent black people. I went through all of your tickets for six months…only 20 percent of the population of Chesterfield [County] is black,’ Carter says, questioning how the math adds up.
The woman continues to fill out the information on the ticket as she accuses him of being ‘gung-ho’ of targeting people of color.
‘You sure do write a lot of tickets,’ Carter says while handing back the signed ticket.
She said her being pulled over by the officer could have been a coincidence, but she turned on her camera just in case it wasn’t
‘As I was going to sign the ticket, I saw his name was S. Scott,’ Carter said. ‘And when I saw S. Scott on that paper, I just turned my camera on record.’
The video, which is captioned ‘racist cops retaliating’ has received more than one million views and has been liked by nearly 138,000 people
She said her being pulled over by the officer could have been a coincidence, but she turned on her camera just 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 the man, who is a Virginia State Trooper according to the Chesterfield County Police, had stopped 53 drivers in six months, largely in October.
Thirty were black, 13 were white and 10 were listed without a race. The Daily Beast reported the last names of the 10 ‘appeared either Hispanic or Arabic.’
The woman said she had looked into Scott and another officer just to see the makeup of their traffic stops in the area.
The woman, who goes by ‘vapersianprincess’ on the video app, claimed the officer had followed her for several miles before the stop
The woman, who goes by ‘vapersianprincess’ on the video app, claimed the officer had followed her for several miles before the stop.
She said the official, identified as ‘S Scott,’ had tailed her for two to three miles before he eventually pulled her over for an illegal right turn on red.
The Virginia resident says her ongoing beef with law enforcement in the area began in 2022 when she began posting about alleged child abuse involving the son of a friend. She said she noticed the child, who is biracial, was bruised and underweight.
The woman who holds a license in practical nursing according to public records, said she felt obligated to get law enforcement involved.
Carter, however, told the Daily Beast she believes police did not act as quickly as they should have as they and that they didn’t take the case seriously because the child’s father was black.
An arrest was eventually made, but Carter says that wasn’t until after she had posted a TikTok in March about the situation and her repeated attempts to get police to step in.
The TikTok video she posted has received nearly 5 million views and more than 630,000 likes. After that, she said police began showing up in everyday situations.
‘I ended up trying to file for emergency custody, but the police began falsely arresting me,’ she told the Daily Beast.
Carter told the outlet she has been stopped by the police ‘about 10 times’ since beginning to speak about police in the area
Just weeks after her initial viral video, the woman was arrested her for trespassing on her own property, she says.
‘They also added on three additional charges for contributing to the delinquency of a minor for each one of my three children because I encouraged them to trespass into our home,’ Carter said.
Carter told the outlet she has been stopped by the police ‘about 10 times’ since beginning to speak about police in the area.
Court records show she has been arrested on five occasions and received multiple charges on those dates.
In April, Chesterfield County Police Chief Jeffrey Katz called out the woman for attention-seeking, without using her name.
‘A number of people have messaged me to share a series of TikTok videos created by a member of our community who really seems to enjoy the attention she’s getting by claiming 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, stating he wouldn’t use her name as to not giver her ‘additional notoriety.’
Katz doubled down, stating he wouldn’t ‘stand by passively while someone sits behind a keyboard and attempts to disparage the work our people do to keep the children in our community safe.’
Despite her arrests, Carter says she finds it ’empowering’ to call the cops out.
‘The wheels of justice are very, very slow, and it takes patience and persistence and not giving up,’ Carter said. ‘I stand for what I believe in at all costs. I’m willing to die on this hill.’
8News Richmond spoke with Katz in October and claimed racial profiling is ‘not a factor’ in the department’s traffic stops.
He did not address the statistics brought up by Carter, but said: ‘There is a great disproportionality of black and Hispanic drivers who die behind the wheel in Virginia.’
The Daily Beast uncovered that Katz was the chief of police Boynton Beach, Florida before moving to Virginia.
In 2017, four officers in his department were charged for beating an unarmed black man. The incident culminated in some calling for Katz to resign or be terminated.
DailyMail.com reached out to both the Virginia State Police and the Chesterfield County Police but could not reach officials for comment by the time of publication.