Jojo Todynho denounces racism at police checkpoint: ‘Having a condition does not exempt me from suffering’

jojo todynho revealed that he was a victim of racism during a traffic stop. The singer, who did not specify where it happened, said she suffered a veiled prejudice when a police officer asked her for an armored car.

Jojo told the podcast Pod do more who was stopped upon returning from the gym and, even after showing all the documents for the car, which were in order, “it wasn’t enough”.

After showing that he was driving in sneakers, the artist was questioned again: “I gave the documents, everything in order, he turned to me and said: ‘Hey, but can you travel in an armored car? ‘”.

“I thought: ‘I have to speak in a way that cannot be arrested’. And I said very arrogantly: ‘I can have an armored vehicle, you can’t, you are an employee’. It was without sound and without image,” he said. recalled her, later released by the police.

So, Jojo mused, “So, people are called arrogant. He doesn’t have to wonder if I’m traveling in an armored car. The fact that I’m black and have a condition not free from racism and any other prejudice, because the people are bad.”

Source: Terra