A black boy who missed his school bus and stopped to ask for help, almost died after a neighbor shot at him
https://thegrio.com/2018/04/13/blac...-asking-for-directions-will-break-your-heart/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...as-for-2-black-men-in-philadelphia-2018-04-14
Two completely unrelated - yet related - stories on Friday and Saturday. There is no "debate" here, but I would love to hear suggestions for combating this kind of casual racism.
Fox2 reports that 14-year-old Brennan Walker says he woke up late for school and started to walk along the road to get to Rochester High School. He says he didn’t have his phone because his mom took it away but decided to stop at a house to ask for directions.
What happened next shocked the teen and his family and almost cost him his life.
“I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady’s door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, ‘Why are you trying to break into my house?’ I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get directions to Rochester High. And she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun, I saw it and started to run. And that’s when I heard the gunshot,” he says.
https://thegrio.com/2018/04/13/blac...-asking-for-directions-will-break-your-heart/
A video of two African American men being removed by at least six officers from a Philadelphia Starbucks as they were reportedly waiting for a business associate has mostly drawn outrage on social media, as well as some officer support — racking up over 2 million views on Twitter by 11 a.m. Eastern Saturday.
The attention prompted an internal investigation by the police department after onlooker video of the arrests was posted earlier this week, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Yaffe tells the officers that he and the men are willing to go elsewhere to meet, to which an officer responds it’s too late for that because the men had previously declined to leave. The video includes the arrest of the men, who are led out of the coffee shop without protest. The Inquirer identifies the two targeted men — who could have faced charges of “defiant trespass,” but were released on lack of evidence — as commercial real estate professionals.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...as-for-2-black-men-in-philadelphia-2018-04-14
Two completely unrelated - yet related - stories on Friday and Saturday. There is no "debate" here, but I would love to hear suggestions for combating this kind of casual racism.