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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 13, 2018, 06:09 AM Sep 2018

Racist that blocked black students from getting on Tallahassee elevator gets fired



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This white man in Tallahassee, Florida blocked black students from going into an apartment building. The students were trying to visit a friend when this man blocked the elevator & brandished a firearm at the students to intimidate them. Twitter, who is he?


FWIW, the racist didn't even live in the apartment building and he was trying to run off the students.



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Update: His name is Don Crandall, he’s a hotel manager with the Pat Hotel Group at the Baymont Inn & Suites by Widham Hotels. According to the company he’s been fired.


I think that his career in the hospitality industry is over, unless the KKK is looking for some help.
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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Good
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 06:34 AM
Sep 2018

It is nice to know that responsible folks still exist in these times. His actions have consequences and that is a good thing. Happy that his company took this move in response to his deplorable action.

NBachers

(17,122 posts)
3. I wonder what the friend he was going up to get laid with feels about being thrust into the middle
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 07:57 AM
Sep 2018

of all this.

IronLionZion

(45,462 posts)
4. Burglars are always very polite and friendly
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 08:03 AM
Sep 2018

Don Crandall is not falling for the old "visiting friends" routine.

Not sure what the policy is in that building, but in mine the guests have to call the resident to come down and let them in or give their names at the front desk. We have a no piggy backing rule enforced by cameras. The people who challenge me to ask if I have a key fob for my condo building where I've lived/owned for 3 years are always women, white or black. Never had a dude challenge me, ever.

Showing the gun to intimidate them is just plain wrong. Glad he got fired. What a douche.

cab67

(2,993 posts)
5. Good on the students for videotaping it.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 08:04 AM
Sep 2018

Otherwise, the dickless wonder with a gun could have shot one of them and walked thanks to Stand Your Ground.

 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
8. Imagine for JUST one second..
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 08:23 AM
Sep 2018

If the colors were reversed...

If a black man pulled a gun on 4 white college students, and refused them access to a dorm..

That man should be in jail right now.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
9. He needs a job? ICE might be hiring to watch babies in cages.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 08:31 AM
Sep 2018

He needs a job? ICE might be hiring to watch babies in cages.

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
11. Losing his job should, I say "should," be the
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 08:38 AM
Sep 2018

least of this assholes problems. Why has he not been changed, why is he not in a jail cell? Oh yeah, that’s right. Silly me!

14. Maybe he can get a job at the White Castle.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 09:18 AM
Sep 2018

Oops! Too late! Last time I was at one there were black and white employees working together in harmony.

TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts)
17. I initially had "Florida Man" in the title of the thread,
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 02:13 PM
Sep 2018

but I decided to change it since I didn't want to make light of the situation.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
16. Fired? Since when is it legal to impede somebody's movement under the threat of gunpoint?
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 11:12 AM
Sep 2018

This man should be in jail and should never have the right to own a gun again.

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