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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: 'Ive been called racist before, and Im 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.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)And that poor kid ! Geez.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)She probably keeps telling herself she is right and everyone else is wrong. Some people never learn.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)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.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)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)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.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)That's how we learn and grow. If nobody says anything that isn't doing anyone any favors.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)No one should be silent to such filth anymore. Silence equals consent.
Basement Beat
(659 posts)who were murdered over such things. Too bad if her feelings get hurt for getting called out by multiple people.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Like Emmett Till for one.
Just another Trump cultist trying to take back America to the "good ole days" I bet.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)She is all set for Halloween looks like.
jcgoldie
(11,645 posts)Pretty much says it all.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)The way the country seems to be headed, those bad-old days may be coming back.
clementine613
(561 posts)n/t