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Demovictory9

(32,475 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:17 AM Oct 2018

woman called cops on black 9 year old for "grabbing her ass".. surveillance video released

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6271685/White-woman-called-cops-black-boy-9-accusing-grabbing-apologizes.html

'I'm not racist': 'Cornerstore Caroline' who called the cops on a black 9-year-old for 'grabbing her a**' defends herself after surveillance video reveals she was barely grazed by his BAG

A viral video shows Teresa Klein, dubbed Cornerstore Caroline, calling the cops on a boy who she said touched her butt at a Brooklyn deli Wednesday

New surveillance footage from inside the store shows the boy was holding a large plastic bag that appears to brush her as he walked by

After the CCTV video was released Friday, Klein apologized to the boy but not to his mother, with whom she had started an explosive argument

She also said: 'I’ve been called racist before, and I’m not'

However, her neighbors accused her of having written racial slurs in chalk on the side of their apartment building

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The incident sparked widespread outrage on social media as a video of Klein's tirade, in which she tells 911 dispatchers: 'I was just sexually assaulted by a child' and reveals her home address and phone number, went viral.

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woman called cops on black 9 year old for "grabbing her ass".. surveillance video released (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2018 OP
Snowflake meltdown. nt Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #1
JHC... A Racist LIAR! like the Asshole in the wh Cha Oct 2018 #2
Betcha she's regretting her stupid donkeypoofed Oct 2018 #3
It looks like she has a history of stupid Flaleftist Oct 2018 #16
I get it-- she's whacked, but why does everyone else in town... TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #4
She was calling police on a little kid. LisaL Oct 2018 #5
I know, and that sucks. But why not just walk on by? She seems to be a known nutcase... TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #6
She does something and people call her out on it JonLP24 Oct 2018 #7
Something tells me this is not the first time someone told her she's wrong. TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #8
It wouldn't be the first either for me JonLP24 Oct 2018 #9
If they are going to dish it, they better be prepared to take it. NutmegYankee Oct 2018 #10
Agreed. History shows us untold number of people- Basement Beat Oct 2018 #11
You know hundreds of AA boys and men were murdered over BS like this not so long ago workinclasszero Oct 2018 #12
+1. Teresa Sue Klein is a public menace dalton99a Oct 2018 #13
What a freak show workinclasszero Oct 2018 #15
'I've been called racist before, and I'm not' jcgoldie Oct 2018 #14
Wow. That poor kid, and thank goodness for the cameras. Hortensis Oct 2018 #17
That's the sort of allegation that used to get young black men lynched. TomSlick Oct 2018 #18
She needs to be arrested and sent to prison for a very long time.. clementine613 Oct 2018 #19

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
16. It looks like she has a history of stupid
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 10:57 AM
Oct 2018

She probably keeps telling herself she is right and everyone else is wrong. Some people never learn.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. I get it-- she's whacked, but why does everyone else in town...
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:04 AM
Oct 2018

have to stop and yell at her?

Perhaps the best thing they could do was comfort the kid, not start a fight that could not be won.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
6. I know, and that sucks. But why not just walk on by? She seems to be a known nutcase...
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:34 AM
Oct 2018

I suspect that she's known to the local cops, and I also suspect they are better able to deal with her than by starting a shouting match.





JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
7. She does something and people call her out on it
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:39 AM
Oct 2018

She is in the wrong here. Not all people who are racists store "nutcases" though racism is nutty.

I would want someone to tell me I'm wrong rather than continues to do the same thing and not know better.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
9. It wouldn't be the first either for me
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:57 AM
Oct 2018

That's how we learn and grow. If nobody says anything that isn't doing anyone any favors.

NutmegYankee

(16,201 posts)
10. If they are going to dish it, they better be prepared to take it.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 05:20 AM
Oct 2018

No one should be silent to such filth anymore. Silence equals consent.

Basement Beat

(659 posts)
11. Agreed. History shows us untold number of people-
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:02 AM
Oct 2018

who were murdered over such things. Too bad if her feelings get hurt for getting called out by multiple people.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
12. You know hundreds of AA boys and men were murdered over BS like this not so long ago
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 07:00 AM
Oct 2018

Like Emmett Till for one.

Just another Trump cultist trying to take back America to the "good ole days" I bet.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Wow. That poor kid, and thank goodness for the cameras.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:05 AM
Oct 2018

This woman sounds like she may have mental issues. I've read there's discussion among mental health professionals that racism so intense that it can blight people's lives be considered a psychiatric diagnosis, a personality disorder trait.

There's huge political resistance to this, of course. However, if people with genuinely serious hate problems they can't control increasingly lose jobs, access to good colleges, etc., there is likely to be increased call for access to treatment. Personality disorders can often be virtually untreatable, of course, and those are likely to be the only ones who would be medically diagnosable.

In this case, if she controls her behavior to avoid further backlash, that'll pretty much establish that she would not be.

TomSlick

(11,109 posts)
18. That's the sort of allegation that used to get young black men lynched.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 07:49 PM
Oct 2018

The way the country seems to be headed, those bad-old days may be coming back.

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