From Starbucks to Hashtags: Why White Americans Call the Police on Black People

[wr]

Cameras the only think keeping black folks alive smh.

Being black is still illegal.

It's almost like a sketch comedy show how this officer is turning a bucket of trash and a grabber into a deadly weapon all while holding a gun on dude.

Even a ligjtskin Drake looking dude doesn't look like he belongs.
Don't get Colorado confused as some liberal Utopia. There were many Trump Rally's going on when I stayed out there.

 

[AEA18]

Cop quit before anything could happen but will remain on payroll for 8 months ($69,000)

 

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Police Escort Black Merit Scholar Out of Graduation After Refusing to Remove Kente Cloth


Courtesy of Nyree Holmes

https://atlantablackstar.com/2016/0...duation-after-refusing-to-remove-kente-cloth/

An 18-year-old Black student was removed from graduation after he refused to take off his kente cloth. Nyree Holmes attended the diverse but predominately white Cosumnes Oaks High School in Elk Grove, California. In a story he shared on Twitter May 24, the merit scholar says he was able to walk across the stage, but police officers greeted him at the other end.

Holmes shared the story after he was escorted out from Sleep Train Arena by three Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department officers. He tells Atlanta Black Star it was important for him to wear the traditional African print because as a “descendant of slaves, I have no firm connection to my roots in Africa.”

“I wanted to wear my kente cloth as a representation of my pride in my ancestors, to display my cultural and religious heritage,” he continues. “As my particular cloth was made by Christians in Ghana, where the kente cloth has been worn by royalty and during important ceremonies for hundreds if not thousands of years.”

The graduate says his parents were shocked the school had police remove him from the ceremony, adding he was greeted with a mix of positive and negative reactions on Twitter.

“I have received a lot of support and outrage from fellow minorities as well as white people, who see the infringement upon my freedom of expression as appalling and shocking,” he tells ABS. “I have also heard of some rumblings within the school of objection as to how I responded on Twitter, especially my tweet that reached over ten-thousand people, explicitly stating “f—- Cosumnes Oaks High School.”

He later deleted the tweet.

As far as future plans, Holmes will attend California State University, Fullerton this fall. He will major in cinema arts “to achieve my dream of becoming an impactful film director.”

If other students are in a similar situation this graduation season, the future filmmaker advises them to stand up for their beliefs and be true to themselves.

“I would also tell them to look upon the horrific experiences of those involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the ’60s for inspiration and the fact that we cannot stop seeking equality,” he says. “If we are forced to wear the European cap and gowns [then] we should be able to wear the African Kente Cloth.”

Update:

The Elk Grove Unified School District issued a news release May 27 addressing Holmes’ removal from the ceremony.

“During a high school graduation ceremony held at the Sleep Train Arena located in Sacramento, CA on May 24, 2016, a Cosumnes Oaks High School (COHS) student was prohibited from participating in the remainder of the school’s graduation ceremony for refusing to follow direction of school officials who were attempting to uphold the established dress code and for ignoring repeated requests to remove unauthorized non-school award regalia.”

The statement went on to read “the District regrets how events unfolded in this instance; however there was no intent to discriminate against the student, as the same rules apply to every graduate.”

It continues:

“The student was allowed to walk across the stage to be recognized and took a formal picture with the principal wearing the Kente cloth. Later, the student was allowed to return to the area where students received their diplomas. The student was given his diploma.

“The District’s approved graduation uniform is a cap and gown. Students may wear, stoles, cords or medals that have been earned and awarded to students at prior ceremonies. Unfortunately, prior to the COHS graduation ceremony, school officials were not given the opportunity to discuss with the family the student’s desire to wear the cloth.”

 

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Black Mother Outraged After Police and Secret Service Called on 10-Year-Old Son with Play Money on School Bus


Adobe Stock Images

https://thegrio.com/2019/06/12/blac...0-year-old-son-with-play-money-on-school-bus/

TheGrio has launched a special series called #BlackonBlue to examine the relationship between law enforcement and African-Americans. Our reporters and videographers will investigate police brutality and corruption while also exploring local and national efforts to improve policing in our communities. Join the conversation, or share your own story, using the hashtag #BlackonBlue.

A mother of a student in a Montgomery County Public School in Maryland is outraged that police and school officials were called on her 10-year-old son for handing out play money to his friends on a school bus.

The fake cash was toy money bought from Amazon, the boy’s mother Tiffany Kelly told reporters. Now Kelly has started a Change.org petition about the overzealous response saying her son was the victim of “over-policing,”

“On May 14, 2019, my son took play money to school (purchased from Amazon). He is excited about money and learning to count ‘his money.’ In an attempt for socialization, something he struggles with, he passed it out on the school bus to his peers,” she wrote. “The money has bright pink Asian symbols on the front and back, along with dotted lines, so that it can be distinguished as play money.”

One of the fake bills was found on the school bus. School officials reviewed the footage from the bus and discovered that the money belonged to Kelly’s son. The police were called. In response, the 10-year-old was questioned by authorities but Kelly is upset she wasn’t made aware of the situation.

“The police came to the school to question my son. They also called the Secret Service,” she wrote. “Outrageous.”



“It is not fair to believe that a person of color has committed a crime, Kelly told NBC4. “I do not believe it would have happened to someone had they not been a minority.”

According to Kelly, the Montgomery County public school system told her that it was standard practice for police to be called if there is suspicion a student is possibly using counterfeit money.

Montgomery County police maintains that racial profiling did not play a role in this case.

 

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/christo...lc.Skimbit Ltd._pcrid.449670_learning&irgwc=1

 

[RustyShackleford]

Even his kid knew he was acting like a scumbag.

Unfortunately for that kid, his dad is gonna full his head with nonsense until he becomes just like him

 

[hand2handking]

#hodor

 

[alchemist iq]

Well he's out of job in anda few day and that kid is going likey go hungry due his father racist ego.

 

[AOkae]

"Don't use that language in front of children"

G-T-F-O!

Dude's son (who looks no older than 9) was the voice of reason, literally begging his father to let it go and keep it pushing, yet he actually had the temerity to say that?

 

[kvsm23vs24]

Man, children are so damn innocent and we as adults have so much influence it’s scary.

Lil mans wanted no parts of this and his whack dumb dad was too ignorant.

I hope the internet destroy this mans whole career.

 

[sfc415]

The Patagonia down jacket is the uniform of the Bay Area and NYC gentrifier. Not surprised

 

[Mark Antony]

Random white dudes always think they're authority on things and people must respond to them.

 

[alchemist iq]

The Patagonia down jacket is the uniform of the Bay Area and NYC gentrifier. Not surprised

Facts

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Random white dudes always think they're authority on things and people must respond to them.

The womens are the dangerous ones.

 

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[AOkae]

Random white dudes always think they're authority on things and people must respond to them.

Word. Answer to me, but so help you if you reverse the script on me.

 

[dman14]

The Patagonia down jacket is the uniform of the Bay Area and NYC gentrifier. Not surprised

i remember we were hooping one time and this Patagonia jacket wearing dude just like him told us to quiet down at the park
said he was going to call the cops on us for language and playing music too loud
we been hooping at that same playground for years before the neighborhood was gentrified

 

[doublemesh96]

Police are guard dogs for the state and petrified white folks. Hell the police ARE petrified white folks.

 

[masagipatron]

Nike be on that bull****. Flushing Nike has had a few clown security guards over the years. I was there today looking at some clothes and one of them was hovering around me. So i started following his goofy *** around and even called on him to ask him a question. I already knew the answer, I just wanted to bother him since he was bothering me. He acted like he didn't even want to speak.

 

[Thats My Word]

Not related to that youtube guy a few posts above, but this happened on july 4th as well - another youtube employee in the news, seems he took some drugs and hurt a bunch of people -
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/a...ed-in-shooting-of-SF-tech-worker-14077823.php

Last year, they had that youtuber shoot up their HQ over demonetizing her vids.

What’s going on over there at youtube.

 

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[DCAllAfrican]

 

[KHUFU]

Random white dudes always think they're authority on things and people must respond to them.

They even do that crap here on NikeTalk. They are the first ones who run to mods about things that are of no concern to them. Go into a thread and speak from a Black perspective? GET OUT OF THIS THREAD. RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. THIS IS A FUN THREAD.

Maaaaan f'u.