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(30,439 posts) Mon Dec 2, 2013, 06:40 PM Dec 2013

3 teens arrested while waiting for a school bus (standing on a sidewalk while black)

Teens Arrested Allegedly For Waiting For Bus
By Simon McCormack Posted: 12/02/2013 2:32 pm EST

Three high school teens in Rochester, N.Y., were arrested while they waited for a bus, but authorities claimed the trio was obstructing the flow of other pedestrians on the sidewalk.

On Wednesday morning, Raliek Redd, 16, Wan'Tauhjs Weathers 17, and Daequon Carelock, 16, said they were cuffed before they could board a school bus to a basketball game, according to WHEC. "We tried to tell them that we were waiting for the bus," Weathers told the station. "We weren't catching a city bus, we were catching a yellow bus. He didn't care. He arrested us anyways."

The Rochester Police did not immediately return a call for comment from The Huffington Post. But a police report obtained by Rochester Homepage said the teens, who attend Edison Tech, were obstructing "pedestrian traffic while standing on a public sidewalk...preventing free passage of citizens walking by and attempting to enter and exit a store."

The report also said the officer who arrested the teens made "clear and concise orders for the group to disperse and leave the area without compliance."

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The boys' coach, Jacob Scott unsuccessfully tried to convince the officers to let the players off the hook. He said an officer told him, "If you don't disperse, you're going to get booked as well,'" Scott said. "I said, 'Sir, I'm the adult. I'm their varsity basketball coach. How can you book me? What am I doing wrong? Matter of fact, what are these guys doing wrong?'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/teens-arrested-after-waiting-for-bus_n_4372708.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

Aren't you supposed to wait for a bus on a sidewalk?

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3 teens arrested while waiting for a school bus (standing on a sidewalk while black) (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Dec 2013 OP

Sigh! This is so ridiculous. Who is responsible for training these officers? In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #1

This is really getting out of hand and has been for a long time...sigh.. monmouth3 Dec 2013 #2

Definitely, it's gotten WAY out of line. HereSince1628 Dec 2013 #5

Darn old racist South! KamaAina Dec 2013 #3

HAAAAAAA! 7962 Dec 2013 #20

Ask the RNC malaise Dec 2013 #4

Yay cops. Always looking to protect us from all the scumbags that go around Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #6

Well clearly they shouldn't have dressed that way... Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #7

I read also that they were black and they were, you know, out on the street. NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #13

Maybe someone can call the Lt. Gov..... Historic NY Dec 2013 #8

Maybe if they had a college application to show the cops it might have changed their minds? Baitball Blogger Dec 2013 #9

Then the cops would've freaked out thinking the papers were some sort of gun. nt DRoseDARs Dec 2013 #22

Keep suing until it sinks in seveneyes Dec 2013 #10

Breathing While Black is now a Class 1 Felony in this country. Scuba Dec 2013 #11

I wish I could rec your post. JRLeft Dec 2013 #16

CNN "we don't know the whole story" JI7 Dec 2013 #12

I heard those "boys" might have been trying to go to school! Scuba Dec 2013 #18

Rochester NY was once home to Frederick Douglass rosesaylavee Dec 2013 #14

Punk ass, power trippin cops. KeepItReal Dec 2013 #15

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2013 #17

kick Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #19

I guess they can arrest you for anything as long as you're black! AAO Dec 2013 #21

In_The_Wind

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1. Sigh! This is so ridiculous. Who is responsible for training these officers?