Elie Mystal for the win! - His take on " he looked like the suspect"

[tulipsandroses]

According to the police, Gregory McMichael was standing in his front yard as Arbery ran past. (Arbery’s family contends that Ahmaud was taking a run, which he regularly did.) McMichael determined that Arbery “looked like a suspect” in a string of burglaries in his neighborhood.

Let me stop the police narrative right there. You’re telling me that a 64-year-old white man sees a black man running past his house, uses his white man clairvoyance to determine that the black man is a “suspect,” ends up shooting that black man dead, and he’s not arrested at the scene of the crime?


If the McMichaels’ story doesn’t already seem ridiculous to you, just flip the races. Imagine a black guy like me tried to sell this story to a cop: “Well, officer, I was outside watering my tulips when this young white guy just comes running past my home in broad daylight. He matched the description of nearly every suspect in every mass shooting I’ve ever seen. Eventually, me and my boy caught him and shot him to death. In, uhh, self-defense. Just doing my part, officer. You’re welcome.”



[link:https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ahmaud-arbery-lynching/|

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Painfully true.

[doc03]

2. This is a true story a friend of mine works at the 911 center. He got a call

from this women saying there were three young black guys walking down her street. He asked her if they had done anything she said no but they shouldn't be in this neighborhood. She wanted them arrested.

[Grokenstein]

5. I really hope that anecdote ended with

the dispatcher telling the caller to eat shit and roll around in a grease fire--then asking the po-po to send two of their biggest, blackest officers to take her statement.

[doc03]

10. He did have to report it to the police but I don't know what they

did about it if anything. No arrests were made.

[Demovictory9]

8. 911 gets calls like that often. it happened while network show was filming in park.. 3 black actors

were waiting in car for their time to be on camera. multiple calls to 911... I recall one guy said "there are children around!"

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. This is a true story from my lil Southern town

which is very like Mayberry.

Our weekly local newspapers prints court information, city and county meetings, etc.

Seems the city was getting complaints that "people were walking around" a neighborhood "at night".

Now, a born and bred white Southern woman would read that and say.." Oh, my..." because she knows that everybody goes to bed at 9pm, if not, lights are out for sure at 10 pm, because you get up early at 6 am, to beat the heat.
There are no reasons for kids to walking around, because there is no entertainment anywhere in town. Everything is closed as of 5 pm.

Following week, newspaper dutifully reports the topic has again been on the agenda, due to more reports.

Once again, "people" had bee walking around.
turns out there were 3 of them.....walking!!! On the sidewalks. In neighborhoods!
again, no reference made to race of "the people" who were committing this heinous offense.
But one Councilman sez he has an idea of who it might be, and he reports he has talked "to their people" and the problem might stop on its own by next week.

Sure enough, no more talk of the problem has been reported.
Ya'll want to guess the race of the councilman, and of the "walking people"?

and I'll take a stab at the age of the 911 caller in the OP.

[Yavin4]

14. Now do you understand why Trump gets 43% support? n/t

[Hoyt]

3. Ignorant gun-humping racists will attempt to make the victim the guilty party.

[Skittles]

4. from what I understand, there really wasn't a string of burglaries

I think they made it up, imagine that.

[wnylib]

6. I assumed the "suspect in burglaries"

was made up as soon as I heard it. Looks to me more like a couple of racist scum resented a black man living in their part of town snd decided to take him out.

[Demovictory9]

9. that's what I heard.

[JI7]

7. remember Trayvon Martin armed with the sidewalk bs ?

anything to excuse murder if innocent black people.

[uponit7771]

11. K&R,

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Something is very wrong when white men can admit they're vigilantes, and still claim self-defense

to justify the murder.