I'm a black doctor. My neighbors called the cops on me for listening to Biggie.

[meadowlander]

10. Most cities have noise limits and/or noise nuisance laws even during the daytime.

Without knowing how loud the music was and how far away the source of the noise was from the neighbours, it's hard to judge what happened and whether or not it was racially motivated. It may well have been. But we had neighbours who used to blast country music from their lawnmower every Sunday and eventually had to call the cops after we asked them several times to stop and they didn't.

We also don't know if this was the first time she cranked the stereo or if she did it all the time.

People call the cops because of screaming babies, barking dogs, children playing loudly in the back yard, old ladies with the TV turned up too high. I know one woman who had the cops called on her because she wears stiletto heels and the noise on the hallway tiles annoyed her neighbors.

Again, not saying definitively that this was racially motivated or not. Just that the article doesn't really have enough information to judge.