Jesus this one hits close to home. My 63 (64?) year old Salvadoran father was jumped by 3 Asian guys on July 4th and hit in the head with something according to his neighbor who called the cops. Thankfully he only has a concussion and a few bruises but this could have easily been a story about my pops if his neighbor…

Thank you, Ms Callahan, for writing this and to The Root in general for constantly calling out all the “while black” police calls in recent years. These racist aggregations need to be exposed. One of the more tragic things about this incident is the fact that there is a child (an adorable one, at that) simply swimming…

When the officer (who was black) showed up, it seemed as though Walker didn’t have much to say:

I cannot believe (*sigh* yes I can) that people are fixated on, “but did he wear socks IN the pool?” as opposed the fact that the (thankfully fired) apartment manager is a blatant racist.

The most important part of this story: Police BELIEVED him until they saw cell phone video that contradicted it. He (and the cops) knew all he had to say was “i was afraid for my life!” and he would walk. How different would things have gone with George Zimmerman if only one of those houses had a security camera...

His socks look wet in the video so I’m 50/50 as to whether he wore them in the pool or they just got wet outside of the pool. I grew up near a public pool in NY and saw both more times than I can count. 

In either scenario the community manager is wrong and I’m glad she’s no longer managing that community.

He actually didn’t have his socks on in the pool. He was wearing them at the pool. 

Da fuck? It’s like they don’t read newspapers and notice all the people causing frivolous confrontations losing their jobs.

I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to put your socks in the pool, swim with a shirt on, or let your baby in the water with a regular diaper.

Gross.

However, NONE of this is worth calling the cops over. None of it. The neighborly thing to do would be to offer to lend him a pair of flip-flops, or something.

You know,…

Amy Schumer, come get your racist sister.

Hmm. I wonder how the grays will make excuses for this one? Perhaps he was concealing razor sharp toenails.

I love the self righteous ‘you’re being ridiculous’ look she’s giving them. Complete with hands on hips. 

Yeah, I fixed this. I’m so out of it this morning.

“late Saturday night”

Fuck, man.

“Marissa Alexander” there was more to her story and why she initially didn’t benefit from the stand your ground defense. These included the police claiming the garage door worked, her shot almost hitting 2 children in another room (even in self defense you are responsible for where your bullets go) and an initial…

This type of shit just makes me sick.  The prosecutor can always choose not to prosecute. Someone should put him on blast and go after his job.

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Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six...

If only he was....