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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)

11. This is great

Reply to Lee-Lee (Reply #9)

Tue Apr 24, 2018, 06:14 PM

Apr 2018

But I don’t understand why, given how willing you were to ask the right questions and put the onus on the caller to justify why they thought the young men looked “suspicious,” you so adamantly defended the cops who didn’t subject the Starbucks manager to similar - or any - scrutiny before arresting the two men for trespassing solely on her say so? In that case

I’m not trying to give you a hard time - I LOVE what you did here. Just trying to understand how you can be so pitch perfect here but take such a different approach when looking at the Starbucks case?

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COPS COMPLAIN ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE WASTING POLICE TIME CALLING 911 WITH IRRATIONAL FEARS OF BLACKS [View all] tulipsandroses Apr 2018 OP

So they respond by shooting said blacks and it's white people's fault Fullduplexxx Apr 2018 #1

Start issuing fines? ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #2

Citation Violation: "Calling Police While Racist" EffieBlack Apr 2018 #5

When you put it like that ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #6

+1000000. Calling 911 is better than shooting, claiming "you were afraid for your life" Hoyt Apr 2018 #3

These "Racist Police" are simply "Scared White People" with a badge and a gun EffieBlack Apr 2018 #4

Perhaps cops should step up and show America they don't fear blacks first. beachbum bob Apr 2018 #7

You mean, be this guy? EffieBlack Apr 2018 #10

That's my hometown! Phoenix61 Apr 2018 #26

Some of those callers aren't irrationally afraid of blacks. Mariana Apr 2018 #8

Yes... Deuce Apr 2018 #29

Ohh yeah Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #9

This is great EffieBlack Apr 2018 #11

Totally different situations Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #13

There was no "reported crime" at Starbucks, either EffieBlack Apr 2018 #15

Ok, whole lot here if you want to keep rehashing it Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #16

No matter how many times you say it, the cops had NO obligation to arrest them based on a manager's EffieBlack Apr 2018 #17

Here is the thing Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #19

If she said, "I don't always enforce it the same," you wouldn't ask her why at this moment, she EffieBlack Apr 2018 #20

Keep in mind two things Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #22

"They were arrested for refusing to leave when asked by the police." EffieBlack Apr 2018 #23

Yes, basically Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #25

My position is not only fair and just, it is the the law. EffieBlack Apr 2018 #30

See Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #12

True story DiverDave Apr 2018 #14

Spied this on Twitter this week cyberswede Apr 2018 #18

Wow EffieBlack Apr 2018 #31

K&R Scurrilous Apr 2018 #21

Welcome to DU, T&R. Please don't shout, even Hortensis Apr 2018 #24

My apologies, tulipsandroses Apr 2018 #27

:) Hortensis Apr 2018 #28