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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 sons 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 couldve 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.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)Massive lawsuit...
Massive lawsuit...
Massive lawsuit...
I hope the kid gets his day in court...
sheshe2
(83,356 posts)and I am so sorry, MrScorpio.
LiberalFighter
(50,506 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)This is nauseating in its vicious regularity.
brer cat
(24,402 posts)What is going to make it stop?
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)about who set him up, and why. And justice. I remember Goldie Taylor from news, MSNBC mainly.
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Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)what was the reason for the police? Did someone claim the laptop was their stolen laptop?
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)are out there to protect...
After this story, I'm not sure what the next word should be...
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)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
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pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)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.