So was the Chief of Police who was running around apologizing for the police “acting according to procedure” but who somehow couldn’t cite any other times out of the multiplicity of those that were admitted on the air multiple times this weekend concerning white people who’d sat there in Starbucks millions of times…

Then they didn’t learn anything when they did that (in great part — like with social media harassment, and media representation and misrepresentation, and every single other time a mess like this is made and POC ask “well, were there any decision-makers of color in the room” and the answer is always “NO” — because…

We do. They’re called things like “malicious prosecution” and “Filing a false police report”. Those are prosecutable offenses; the thing is, all too often because the police are white and the person calling “fearing for their life” is often white too, too often it’s dismissed as a “mistake” or an “accident”. And in…

In a former life, I used to work 911 dispatch for ‘good ol’ Sherrif Joe Arpaio’ and OMFG I hated these calls. I would get about 15 a week and the breakdown was typically 80% Hispanic 15% black and 5% unsure.

Aaaaaaand now we have this

This very thing described above has happened to me. But none of the girls were white. They were non Black women of color. Make no mistake. They may seem on our side, but they know when to pull racism and use it against us the moment we get on their bad side

That’s awful? Do you have any idea what was going through your sick neighbors head when she called the police? Did you not smile back or some equally stupid bullshit? I’m curious about her messed up thought process.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I’m here for this. Agreed. You put your head in the lion’s mouth you can’t be shocked when the teeth scratch your skull. No sympathy at all. No Black man over 16 years old has lived in a world without ample evidence of White women being prepared to bed or dead a Black man’s existence at her whim.

Kevin needs to go sit his Black Lucky Charms ass down somewhere.

After moving to a Philly suburb for work. I was in my residence for about 4 months.

For the black guy whose ex white gf that was going to call the police on him and lie about him hitting her; he gets no sympathy from me. That’s why you shouldn’t lay up with your oppressor.

My friends, I had the displeasure of seeing my least favorite white coworker sing “Formation” at karaoke and if healthcare weren’t so important I would have yanked the mic and her beer and hexed her then and there.

When I lived in DC about 12 years ago, there was a story on the news how a man was beaten senseless, and left to die in a vestibule on a busy street— thousands of people walked by him, figured he was drunk, so he died slowly without help.

In The Heat of the Night, made in 1967, starts with a Black man from Philadelphia minding his own business in a train station. In the middle of the night hes arrested for being suspicious. Nevermind that he’s in a space (train station) with a ticket for its intended use.

“I’m gonna call the cops! I’ll tell them you hit me!” the woman screamed, sitting on the grass and pointing at her ex. “I’ll tell them you beat me up. They’ll get your ass.”

I used to work for 911 and I quickly lost count of the number of people who called to report a suspicious black person. When asked what made them suspicious, the caller would always say “well, they’re black” or “they don’t belong in this neighborhood” or something along those lines. 99.999999% of the time, said person…

“Calling the police is the epitome of escalation, and calling the police on black people for noncrimes is a step away from asking for a tax-funded beatdown, if not an execution.”

Gotta Add Outstanding by the Gap Band. Beiber would do this. And it must be stopped.

Purple Rain will be forever off limits. Yes I know they happen but I refuse to listen to them... Therefore they don’t exist.