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Demovictory9

(32,421 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:23 AM Jun 2020

white women are still calling the cops on black people

Little more than a week after the Cooper video went viral — and in the middle of national protests over systemic racism — white New York restaurateur Svitlana Flom called police multiple times on a black woman sitting on an Upper West Side Manhattan park bench, alleging “harassment” and threats against her child.

A series of Instagram posts by user @_brownsugarbaby (the recipient of Flom’s wrath), don’t show anything of the sort. What they show is an entitled white woman appalled at not getting her way — and willing to summon shock troops away from escalating civil unrest until she gets it.







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Yes, Flom actually said: “She’s playing the black card.”

Flom alleges the video was selectively edited to make her “look racist.” But it’s pretty clear that she was in no physical danger while making her 911 calls. Her husband walks away from the encounter in apparent mortification while her child plays on a scooter, seemingly carefree, nearby.

This is not what danger looks like.

Danger is not someone sitting calmly on a park bench recording you with their cellphone. Danger is not feeling comfortable enough to sit feet away from your supposed menace, crossing your legs and waiting for police to arrive.


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-03/svitlana-flom-amy-cooper-george-floyd-police-racism

https://thegrio.com/2020/06/01/white-woman-calls-cops-nyc-park/

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white women are still calling the cops on black people (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2020 OP
Watch out for those women. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #1
Why would you expect that to stop zak247 Jun 2020 #2
It didn't start here, and won't end here DFW Jun 2020 #3
God the Karen brigade is out of control vercetti2021 Jun 2020 #4
They have already gotten thousands of black men killed. Laelth Jun 2020 #7
Thank God for smartphones vercetti2021 Jun 2020 #11
They call the cops on white men too. Laelth Jun 2020 #5
Then they're like... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #9
Cops automatically agree with them? kcr Jun 2020 #16
That has not been my experience. Laelth Jun 2020 #17
You can't prove it because it's not true. kcr Jun 2020 #19
It was true in my case. Laelth Jun 2020 #22
It didn't stop you from speaking for everyone. kcr Jun 2020 #23
You don't know when to quit, do you? Laelth Jun 2020 #24
Rich women whose husband owns high end restaurants grantcart Jun 2020 #6
I actually don't know what's wrong with white women especially, but white people generally. rusty quoin Jun 2020 #8
I worked at a company that was 90% African American. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #14
Shame them, name them and make those videos go viral. smirkymonkey Jun 2020 #10
Please. Not all white women are like that. nt leftyladyfrommo Jun 2020 #12
Please. The OP does not say all white women are like that. nt. Mariana Jun 2020 #15
No, they aren't, but kcr Jun 2020 #21
If the OP is not about you, then it's not about you. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #20
If that guy was her husband Sunsky Jun 2020 #13
That's how the system is set up. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #18
Is Svitlana Russian? She sounds foreign. Ilsa Jun 2020 #25
Not Karens. These are Kellyannes. Like KellyAnne Conway Ilsa Jun 2020 #26

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
1. Watch out for those women.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:28 AM
Jun 2020

They can be dangerous with words, a common method of attack since they tend to be less adept physically.

 

zak247

(251 posts)
2. Why would you expect that to stop
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:28 AM
Jun 2020

Just because there is a bit of kumbaya over this Minnesota tragedy, unfortunately, isn't going to wipe out how people have been thinking for a long time.

We tend to project our own attitudes on others and that is a mistake, IMO.

DFW

(54,299 posts)
3. It didn't start here, and won't end here
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:33 AM
Jun 2020

However, the more these people get shamed publicly, the more the whole practice looks foolish. This only ends when the callers know for a fact that they risk being publicly made to look foolish, and their names spread all over the internet. They fear that even more than they fear black folks sitting on park benches.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
4. God the Karen brigade is out of control
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:35 AM
Jun 2020

Honestly I hope other women come and put these Karen's in their place before they get a black person killed.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
7. They have already gotten thousands of black men killed.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 03:40 AM
Jun 2020

And they’re not done yet.

Just being honest here.

-Laelth

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
5. They call the cops on white men too.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:58 AM
Jun 2020

And the cops tend to believe the white women no matter what race is on the other side of the dispute.

-Laelth

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
9. Then they're like...
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 03:53 AM
Jun 2020

"Tee hee! I'm not the person who bashed in his head or pulled the trigger. I'm cool."

Lots of women are NOT that way, of course, but some of them are pretty awful shit-stirrers.

kcr

(15,315 posts)
16. Cops automatically agree with them?
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:11 PM
Jun 2020

On what planet? The same cops who brutalize black people will never take the word of any woman, regardless of race, over a white man. Pretending that the issue of police brutality against black people is all on white women lets white men, by far the bigger problem, off the hook.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
17. That has not been my experience.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:47 PM
Jun 2020

I think cops tend to believe a white woman over a white man, but I can’t “prove” that.



-Laelth

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
8. I actually don't know what's wrong with white women especially, but white people generally.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 03:42 AM
Jun 2020

I’m white and feel most comfortable with black people because they are really nice and have common sense, which is devoid of people like that woman.

I’m in the minority of older white people, and my wife, but my kids are great, and so are many young.

It should have happened in the 80s when I was in my 20s, but let’s see it happen now. Racists suck.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
14. I worked at a company that was 90% African American.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:56 AM
Jun 2020

They didn't cause me problems.

There were a lot of cultural differences that I didn't understand, which they thought was hilarious.

"He didn't know that wasn't her real hair! Ha ha!"

Edit:
Another strange phenomenon, for me, was using Mr. and Ms. in front of the first names -- e.g., "Thank you, Ms. Rebecca." I thought, "Am I in Alabama now?" I just did what they did.
The shootings in that neighborhood compelled me to leave eventually. The coworkers were fine.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. Shame them, name them and make those videos go viral.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 04:08 AM
Jun 2020

That will shut these Karens up! Once they realize how much they have to lose, they will think twice before pulling this kind of bullshit again.

kcr

(15,315 posts)
21. No, they aren't, but
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jun 2020

It's yet another thread giving a pass to white men, pretending that they aren't doing the same thing at a higher rate. White women who are racist aren't racists because they're women. They're racist because they're white. It's also all to common a way for white people to pretend that some other group are the racist ones. Then they don't have to examine their own racism quite so much.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,308 posts)
20. If the OP is not about you, then it's not about you.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jun 2020

If you're a white woman, though, know that white supremacy is designed to benefit you.

Sunsky

(1,737 posts)
13. If that guy was her husband
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:50 AM
Jun 2020

I don't see their marriage lasting for much longer. He wanted nothing to do with her bs. She's ridiculous. I'm happy the black lady stood her ground and show her up for the clown she is. She felt so threatened that she stuck around the threat, even though she had amply opportunity to leave. Go home, Karen.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
25. Is Svitlana Russian? She sounds foreign.
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 05:03 PM
Jun 2020

I hope people let her know how unacceptable her behavior is.

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