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SouthernCal_Dem

(852 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:35 PM Jun 2020

The mobile phone camera is an absolute game changer when it comes to identifying racism in America

Many white people used to deny it, but it's absolutely undeniable thanks to technology.

Yet another example....

Man threatens to have Black teens arrested in front of their own house because they ‘don’t belong’ in the neighborhood

A racially charged confrontation in Wellington, Florida, between a man and a group of teenagers was caught on video. According to Breonna Nelson-Hicks, 15, the man followed her and her friends home.

The Palm Beach Post reports that five teens were riding in a golf cart Sunday afternoon in Nelson-Hicks’ neighborhood when the man began following them in his car and started yelling at them. At that point, Nelson-Hicks’ friend took out her cellphone and began recording.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/watch-man-threatens-to-have-black-teens-arrested-in-front-of-their-own-house-because-they-dont-belong-in-the-neighborhood/

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The mobile phone camera is an absolute game changer when it comes to identifying racism in America (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Jun 2020 OP

besides proving these incidents NJCher Jun 2020 #1

+1, without the last 3 weeks of police beating the crap out of white folk I wouldn't have believed uponit7771 Jun 2020 #2

The original article has video crickets Jun 2020 #3

"I don't care if you take my picture ... because you don't belong in this development" dalton99a Jun 2020 #5

For every Karen, there is a Chad. AwakeAtLast Jun 2020 #4

NJCher

(35,764 posts)

1. besides proving these incidents

Reply to SouthernCal_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 05:56 PM

Jun 2020

It is testimony to the fact that people really do behave like this.

Yes, probably sounds naive, but noone I know would behave in such a manner. But just because I don't see it in my daily life doesn't mean it isn't out there. I find it incredible that anyone would a) get upset enough that they would engage in a confrontation; b) risk their reputation (and livelihood) by expressing racist idealogy.

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)

2. +1, without the last 3 weeks of police beating the crap out of white folk I wouldn't have believed

Reply to NJCher (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 06:00 PM

Jun 2020

... it either.

My parents think that's naive but I've grown up with F the police written by rap artist who were black lived were I lived for instance and have never seen the police this consummately violent towards white people.

Its scary, if police are beating white people in front of camera's they're killing me when they don't think one is around.

Like you said, that is something I don't see in my daily life.

crickets

(25,987 posts)

3. The original article has video

Reply to SouthernCal_Dem (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 07:09 PM

Jun 2020

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200617/wellington-confrontation-highlights-racial-tensions-prompts-calls-for-change--video

It's pretty ugly.

On Wednesday, PBSO spokeswoman Teri Barbera said in an email that the man told deputies he had “almost hit the golf cart being driven by” the teens.

“We received two calls and when the deputies arrived, the male had already gone home,” Barbera wrote in the email. “Deputies did speak to the juveniles and made contact with the male next day. Based on both accounts no crime was committed.”

Nelson told the Post the responding deputies were “very cordial, very polite” and shook their heads as they watched the video.

I don't understand why threatening teens with a vehicle, then following them home to continue to threaten them verbally isn't considered a crime...