GOD FORBID “Those people” should be allowed to Shop while Black, or Drive while Black, or Swim while Black, or Walk while Black, or Work while Black, or basically LIVE while Black!! /s.
Time for another Ferguson Effect story. Yes, I posted this once before.
Dateline Milwaukee, last week.
My stepdaughter got hit by a guy in a pickup who blew a stop sign. The way the cars ended up, his little pickup was trapped between her car and a parked car. He tried to back out and couldn’t, so he jumped out and started yelling at her to move her car. When she refused, he yanked her door open and tried to kick her over to the passenger side.
Before he could do too much injury he was surrounded by local pedestrians who refused to let him go. The incident was recorded on the “dashcam” on a city bus at the corner. It was witnessed by a Transit Cop on the bus. Several local witnesses also confirmed the exact events above. She was kept overnight at the hospital with breathing difficulty. She has bruises on her chest and abdomen in the shape of his boot.
Police refused to arrest the man, despite having run the stop in an unregistered vehicle while on a suspended license, not to mention assault, attempted carjacking, etc. They told my daughter that the neighborhood situation was “touchy” and that they couldn’t risk triggering an “incident”.
She is white, he is black. The neighborhood is such that they puts cops on the buses.
Never mind that she had her two mixed race boys in the back seat.
Never mind that her husband is black.
Never mind that the witnesses and the crowd who restrained the driver were local black residents.
2) Seems to me that those who claim “those others” are misrepresenting things should also have body cams, in order to back up their own descriptions of events.
And now we have a filthy rich one percenter racist bigot who refuses to meet with a person of another color whose policies have reduced minority unemployment to an all time low. (How am I doing with the politically correct rhetoric here?) Who’s that you ask? Lebron James.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 6 years ago
GOD FORBID “Those people” should be allowed to Shop while Black, or Drive while Black, or Swim while Black, or Walk while Black, or Work while Black, or basically LIVE while Black!! /s.
walkingmancomics almost 6 years ago
[Carrying body cams] And rightly so.
casonia2 almost 6 years ago
Good idea!
Nyckname almost 6 years ago
Get a sturdy case with a strong strap, so you can hang the phone against your chest where it can’t be “mistaken for a weapon”.
Andylit Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Time for another Ferguson Effect story. Yes, I posted this once before.
Dateline Milwaukee, last week.
My stepdaughter got hit by a guy in a pickup who blew a stop sign. The way the cars ended up, his little pickup was trapped between her car and a parked car. He tried to back out and couldn’t, so he jumped out and started yelling at her to move her car. When she refused, he yanked her door open and tried to kick her over to the passenger side.
Before he could do too much injury he was surrounded by local pedestrians who refused to let him go. The incident was recorded on the “dashcam” on a city bus at the corner. It was witnessed by a Transit Cop on the bus. Several local witnesses also confirmed the exact events above. She was kept overnight at the hospital with breathing difficulty. She has bruises on her chest and abdomen in the shape of his boot.
Police refused to arrest the man, despite having run the stop in an unregistered vehicle while on a suspended license, not to mention assault, attempted carjacking, etc. They told my daughter that the neighborhood situation was “touchy” and that they couldn’t risk triggering an “incident”.
She is white, he is black. The neighborhood is such that they puts cops on the buses.
Never mind that she had her two mixed race boys in the back seat.
Never mind that her husband is black.
Never mind that the witnesses and the crowd who restrained the driver were local black residents.
She is white, he is black. He got a ticket.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/13/ferguson-effect-real-researcher-richard-rosenfield-second-thoughts
Mokurai almost 6 years ago
Talk to the camera in my hand.
If you go viral, we can proclaim you a new virus.
Every day more Deplorables out themselves, for which I thank them.
kaffekup almost 6 years ago
I for one am getting tired of bigots using 911 as customer service. They need to be ticketed for false reports.
William Bednar Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Variation of: Talk to the “hand”.
gammaguy almost 6 years ago
1) It’s already 2018.
2) Seems to me that those who claim “those others” are misrepresenting things should also have body cams, in order to back up their own descriptions of events.
Iron Pounder almost 6 years ago
And now we have a filthy rich one percenter racist bigot who refuses to meet with a person of another color whose policies have reduced minority unemployment to an all time low. (How am I doing with the politically correct rhetoric here?) Who’s that you ask? Lebron James.