#BlackinAmerica

[RavenSky]

According to everyone (including police) EVERYONE "violates" that specific park rule. It is so unimportant, it isn't even posted. Selective enforcement against a specific group is a violation of civil rights... as the police in this case obviously demonstrated they realized when they refused to be the racist bitch's attack dogs.

Then maybe they should enforce it more diligently for everyone or change it if there is no fire hazard due to embers.

I agree.

In the meantime, police are not enforcing it, which still leaves the issue of the racist bitch harassing a black man for TWO HOURS

 

[Loren Pechtel]

According to everyone (including police) EVERYONE "violates" that specific park rule. It is so unimportant, it isn't even posted. Selective enforcement against a specific group is a violation of civil rights... as the police in this case obviously demonstrated they realized when they refused to be the racist bitch's attack dogs.

Then maybe they should enforce it more diligently for everyone or change it if there is no fire hazard due to embers.

I agree.

In the meantime, police are not enforcing it, which still leaves the issue of the racist bitch harassing a black man for TWO HOURS

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law. So what he got harassed for breaking the law? Just because he's black that doesn't exempt him for being harassed for breaking the law.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I agree.

In the meantime, police are not enforcing it, which still leaves the issue of the racist bitch harassing a black man for TWO HOURS

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law. So what he got harassed for breaking the law? Just because he's black that doesn't exempt him for being harassed for breaking the law.

No one is making that argument. No one is harassing non-blacks for the same thing. Therefore, logically it is unequal treatment. Do you care that harassment is unequal or is it okay with you? So far you are engaing in strawman points and apologetics so it appears you don't care.

 

[RavenSky]

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law. <snip>

First you need to PROVE he was "breaking the law". As I said, there was some question whether this particular space allowed charcoal or not, and the police that responded said the men were fine where they were. So unless YOU find irrefutable evidence that the man did, in fact, break some little-known law that even the responding police officers did not think worth citing them for, you can't change the fact that you are (yet again) blabbering nonsense in an effort to blame the black victims of a racist white woman.

“She kept saying we were going to jail. She said that she was going to file a complaint for us cooking BBQ in the park. She said she knows her rights, that the rights state if she tells the police if she has a problem with us then we are going to go to jail,” Smith said.

She knew exactly what she was doing. Fortunately, the police officers did not oblique her like police in other situations did. But it sounds to me like you are agreeing with her trying to get the black men arrested... or worse.

 

[laughing dog]

I agree.

In the meantime, police are not enforcing it, which still leaves the issue of the racist bitch harassing a black man for TWO HOURS

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law.

Your response only makes sense if you somehow are more familiar with the law in that area and the facts of the case than the police, since the police said he was fine where he was. So, please provide the disinterested evidence that shows this gentleman was breaking the law.

 

[laughing dog]

A white person voices suspicions about an innocuous person of color. Police are summoned. And the encounter is posted on social media, sparking outrage about racial profiling.

In what is becoming an all-too familiar episode, a black Yale University graduate student was interrogated by campus police officers early Tuesday after a white student found her sleeping in a common room of their dorm and called police.

(source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/us/yale-student-napping-black-trnd/index.html)

After some time and some hassle, she was eventually left alone.

 

[repoman]

 

[Mumbles]

Somehow, I doubt that the white supremacists are neutral about this particular subject...

 

[Derec]

After some time and some hassle, she was eventually left alone.

The so-called "hassle" being having to show her student ID (which she initially refused) to prove that she is a student. I never took a nap in the common areas of the dorms, but I have worked late in computer labs and have on occasion have to show id to campus police. That is not police harassment.

Note two things: she is 34, older than your typical student, even a grad student, and she is a student in "African studies". Is that huge chip on her shoulder a surprise given her major?

 

[Derec]

Somehow, I doubt that the white supremacists are neutral about this particular subject...

Whether they are or not, it doesn't change the fact that the Charlotte riots and the misinformation spread about Keith Scott ("it was a book") was yet another travesty orchestrated by #BLM.

Btw: I like repoman's new avatar. Don't see too many Mercury dimes any more, although I found one abandoned at a CoinStar a while ago. I also once found a 1937 German 2 Mark piece. Yes, a silver Nazi coin. Weird.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I agree.

In the meantime, police are not enforcing it, which still leaves the issue of the racist bitch harassing a black man for TWO HOURS

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law. So what he got harassed for breaking the law? Just because he's black that doesn't exempt him for being harassed for breaking the law.

No one is making that argument. No one is harassing non-blacks for the same thing. Therefore, logically it is unequal treatment. Do you care that harassment is unequal or is it okay with you? So far you are engaing in strawman points and apologetics so it appears you don't care.

We don't know if others got harassed for it or not. All we know is that it didn't become a police matter.

 

[laughing dog]

After some time and some hassle, she was eventually left alone.

The so-called "hassle" being having to show her student ID (which she initially refused) to prove that she is a student. I never took a nap in the common areas of the dorms, but I have worked late in computer labs and have on occasion have to show id to campus police. That is not police harassment.

Note two things: she is 34, older than your typical student, even a grad student, and she is a student in "African studies". Is that huge chip on her shoulder a surprise given her major?

Did you go to your safe space before posting your apologia for bigotry?

 

[Elixir]

After some time and some hassle, she was eventually left alone.

The so-called "hassle" being having to show her student ID (which she initially refused) to prove that she is a student. I never took a nap in the common areas of the dorms, but I have worked late in computer labs and have on occasion have to show id to campus police. That is not police harassment.

Note two things: she is 34, older than your typical student, even a grad student, and she is a student in "African studies". Is that huge chip on her shoulder a surprise given her major?

Did you go to your safe space before posting your apologia for bigotry?

Thanks to Twitler, the safe space for bigotry is almost everywhere in the US now.

 

[Playball40]

She probably wanted their table.

Whether the police are enforcing the law or not doesn't change the fact that he was breaking the law. <snip>

First you need to PROVE he was "breaking the law". As I said, there was some question whether this particular space allowed charcoal or not, and the police that responded said the men were fine where they were. So unless YOU find irrefutable evidence that the man did, in fact, break some little-known law that even the responding police officers did not think worth citing them for, you can't change the fact that you are (yet again) blabbering nonsense in an effort to blame the black victims of a racist white woman.

“She kept saying we were going to jail. She said that she was going to file a complaint for us cooking BBQ in the park. She said she knows her rights, that the rights state if she tells the police if she has a problem with us then we are going to go to jail,” Smith said.

She knew exactly what she was doing. Fortunately, the police officers did not oblique her like police in other situations did. But it sounds to me like you are agreeing with her trying to get the black men arrested... or worse.

 

[Derec]

Did you go to your safe space

That's what faux-liberals like you need.

before posting your apologia for bigotry?

What bigotry? Why is it so unconscionable for her to show the officers her student id?

 

[laughing dog]

Did you go to your safe space

That's what faux-liberals like you need.

I'm not the one who has a meltdown whenever he thinks some person of color is getting a special privilege.

What bigotry? Why is it so unconscionable for her to show the officers her student id?

The bigotry was the white student calling the cops. Duh. Second, did the police also ask the complaining white student for an id? No.

 

[Derec]

I'm not the one who has a meltdown whenever he thinks some person of color is getting a special privilege.

No meltdown, just calm discussion.

The bigotry was the white student calling the cops. Duh.

How do you know she called the cops because she was black? Rather than because a grown-ass woman she did not know was sleeping in the common area of the dorms. You know, instead of in her bed.
You are assuming bigotry without sufficient evidence here.

Second, did the police also ask the complaining white student for an id? No.

How do you know? if they did and she showed it to them without argument I can see it not being mentioned in the article.
As I said, I am white and I had to show my student id at night to campus police. It's not profiling. It's not because she is black.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

How do you know she called the cops because she was black? Rather than because a grown-ass woman she did not know was sleeping in the common area of the dorms. You know, instead of in her bed.

Here are the Yale rules and regulations regarding dormitory rooms etc. There is no such rule about having to sleep in your bed. The common area is called a common area because it is as much hers as everyone else there. She "rents" (for lack of a better word) it as much as she rents her room and bed. When I went to college, there were plenty of people who took naps on the grass in front of the student center, never mind in the student center lounge and in dormitory common areas.

It's really no different than common rooms at home, such as a living room where grandpa falls asleep in the recliner or grandma falls asleep knitting or vice versa.

The notion of common spaces extends beyond merely dormitories and everyone knows this.

Your tone of victim blaming is therefore provably unfounded.

 

[coloradoatheist]

How do you know she called the cops because she was black? Rather than because a grown-ass woman she did not know was sleeping in the common area of the dorms. You know, instead of in her bed.

Here are the Yale rules and regulations regarding dormitory rooms etc. There is no such rule about having to sleep in your bed. The common area is called a common area because it is as much hers as everyone else there. She "rents" (for lack of a better word) it as much as she rents her room and bed. When I went to college, there were plenty of people who took naps on the grass in front of the student center, never mind in the student center lounge and in dormitory common areas.

It's really no different than common rooms at home, such as a living room where grandpa falls asleep in the recliner or grandma falls asleep knitting or vice versa.

The notion of common spaces extends beyond merely dormitories and everyone knows this.

Your tone of victim blaming is therefore provably unfounded.

That only follows if she knew that the lady was a student in the dorms and she was being called because she fell asleep there. The other possibility is that she thought someone of the street was coming in and laying down in the dorm. I can't find anything that describes either way. To show she isn't racist, she could say I've called cops on X people who I didn't think lived in the dorm that were here.

 

[laughing dog]

How do you know she called the cops because she was black? Rather than because a grown-ass woman she did not know was sleeping in the common area of the dorms. You know, instead of in her bed.

Why call the police AT ALL about someone sleeping in the common area of the dorm during the day?

How do you know? if they did and she showed it to them without argument I can see it not being mentioned in the article.

There is a video.

As I said, I am white and I had to show my student id at night to campus police. It's not profiling. It's not because she is black.

Did someone call the police or were they on patrol? If the former, then you might have a point, but if it it was the latter, you don't.