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MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
Sun May 15, 2016, 07:44 PM May 2016

Daily Beast editor documents chilling story of son assaulted by cops for selling his laptop


Daily Beast editor Goldie Taylor and her son Josh -- Twitter

(EDITORS NOTE: In an email sent to Raw Story, Goldie Taylor clarified that the “weapon” held to her son’s back was a Taser and not a gun. We apologize for the confusion.)

Daily Beast editor Goldie Taylor took to Twitter on Saturday to relate the story of her son who was held at gunpoint by undercover police with a Taser when he innocently tried to sell his MacBook via Craigslist.

According to Taylor, her son Josh contacted her on Friday after the prospective “buyer” of the laptop approached him on the street only to have another undercover officer slip up behind him and press a weapon to his back before handcuffing him.

Taylor relates that her son — a young black man — told her, “Mom, if I had moved they could’ve killed me and gotten away with it.”

Over a series of tweets, Taylor explained that her son had agreed to meet with an actual buyer — who later emailed to apologize and blamed the police — when he was cuffed while officers scanned his laptop to see if it was stolen.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/daily-beast-editor-documents-chilling-story-of-son-held-at-gunpoint-by-cops-for-selling-his-laptop/#.VzkEPfs-FV4.twitter


We, as black people living in America, can never have the luxury of disregarding the relevance of our own race in whatever situation we find ourselves in, such as selling our property on Craigslist.
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Daily Beast editor documents chilling story of son assaulted by cops for selling his laptop (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2016 OP
I have three things to say... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #1
That's wrong, sheshe2 May 2016 #2
When are bad cops going to pay the price? LiberalFighter May 2016 #3
When so called "good" cops start doing their job by exposing the bad ones. Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #14
Holy hell. blackspade May 2016 #4
Do we even go a day without one of the reports? brer cat May 2016 #5
Awful. Glad the young man is ok and hope the family gets some info. appalachiablue May 2016 #6
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #7
I don't get it Mnpaul May 2016 #8
We must remember that police Thespian2 May 2016 #9
I don't understand how this happens nadine_mn May 2016 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #13
Just infuriating. n/t pnwmom May 2016 #11
Sickening. Starry Messenger May 2016 #12
Police reform felix_numinous May 2016 #15
 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
1. I have three things to say...
Sun May 15, 2016, 08:05 PM
May 2016

Massive lawsuit...

Massive lawsuit...

Massive lawsuit...

I hope the kid gets his day in court...

appalachiablue

(41,056 posts)
6. Awful. Glad the young man is ok and hope the family gets some info.
Sun May 15, 2016, 09:03 PM
May 2016

about who set him up, and why. And justice. I remember Goldie Taylor from news, MSNBC mainly.

Response to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mnpaul

(3,655 posts)
8. I don't get it
Sun May 15, 2016, 09:58 PM
May 2016

what was the reason for the police? Did someone claim the laptop was their stolen laptop?

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
9. We must remember that police
Sun May 15, 2016, 10:00 PM
May 2016

are out there to protect...

After this story, I'm not sure what the next word should be...

nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)
10. I don't understand how this happens
Sun May 15, 2016, 10:07 PM
May 2016

Don't get me wrong - I am in no way saying it doesn't happen or that racism doesn't exist..I just cannot wrap my mind around the mentality that this is ok.

Seriously - every single time I hear a story like this - which is nearly every day, I am just stunned that it is so prevalent and so acceptable to so many.

Thank god for the internet - more of us are waking up to the reality so many African Americans face every single day.

When someone tells me this has happened to them, my disbelief is not that they are lying or making it up or exaggerating - it is that it happened at all. That there exists not a small group of racist assholes everywhere who seem only to exist to harass/threaten/assault/ or worse, kill minorities... and that there isn't more outrage. Instead, people double down on the narrative that somehow it is deserved... like why would a young Black male have a Macbook unless it was stolen?

I hope they sue the pants off the police department

Response to nadine_mn (Reply #10)

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
15. Police reform
Mon May 16, 2016, 07:17 PM
May 2016

too many of them need to be reevaluated and tested for for mental health/steroid abuse--and reform has to be investigated independently from police agencies.

They cannot be allowed to continue behaving like petty Nazi tyrants in a dictatorship, scapegoating Black people must be seen as a form of domestic terrorism.

Their predatory behavior has made living in the US suck, no one wants to come here anymore.

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