Stunning hypocrisy of LA City Council chief who cried racism over police stop is exposed

Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s traffic stop saga just took a sharp turn.

New details reveal the Los Angeles City Council president pulled an illegal U-turn on the same stretch of road he moaned was one of the most dangerous in the city.

Harris-Dawson was pulled over and cited for a traffic violation on a corridor that sits inside LA’s High Injury Network, a web of streets where crashes, injuries and deaths happen again and again.

In his own words, they are “some of the biggest killers in the city,” claiming more lives each year than gang violence, he previously said.

Harris-Dawson helped champion Vision Zero, the city’s aggressive push to eliminate traffic deaths through street redesign, enforcement and targeted intervention in these high-risk corridors.

In a co-authored opinion piece, he laid it out bluntly. The city, he wrote, has identified a “High Injury Network” where fatal crashes happen repeatedly and “people will die in these hot spots unless we intervene.”

The solution, he argued, is design. Safer crossings, signals, and redesigned streets that account for human error.

He also underscored who pays the price. “No community is immune,” he wrote, “but the victims are disproportionately older adults, immigrants, people of color, people who live in low-income communities, people with disabilities, and children.”

Now he’s at the center of it.

Harris-Dawson told colleagues during a City Council committee meeting that he had been stopped without cause the corner of 25th and Main St and suggested the encounter was driven by racial bias, describing it as traumatic.

But officials say the stop had nothing to do with LAPD, despite the implication. According to authorities, it was Los Angeles School Police who caught him during morning drop-off near a high school.

School police say Harris-Dawson first caught an officer’s attention by driving erratically on the freeway. He then exited directly in front of the patrol car and crossed a center divider to make an illegal U-turn.

The violation carries a $238 fine, adds a point to a driver’s record and can push insurance costs higher. Authorities say it happened as students were arriving at school.

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Sources say Harris-Dawson contacted a Los Angeles Unified School District board member during the stop in an apparent effort to get out of the citation.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League blasted the council president, accusing him of pushing a misleading narrative.

“City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s attempt to influence public policy by concocting a harrowing and self-serving personal account that leaves out key facts is both unethical and a lie of omission,” a spokesman said.

“If there was an Academy Award category for fictitious stories told by elected officials, his performance would win an Oscar.”

The Post reached out to Harris-Dawson for comment on the allegations. He did not respond.