Black People, Stop Being Black! You are Scaring the Police!!

[evildevil]

America's New Shocking Crime: Sitting while Being Black, Waiting while Being Black, Just Being Black, Picking Your Kids while Being Black, Looking Suspicious.

“I’m not your brother!”: Video reveals police’s stunning double-standard for black Americans In a shocking video posted to YouTube, police tase and arrest a black man picking his kids up

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[chaya]

Throw an lj cut in there somewhere, pls.

[fenris_lorsrai]

at around 4 minutes mark:
"I don't have any weapons. you're the ones with the weapons here."

so damn true.

[vvalkyri]

He also couldn't post the vid until the charges were dropped - they had his phone from1/31-7/31

[tabaqui]

I am so *sick* of this shite, and I'm only reading about it. It's like a cresting wave - it's getting higher and higher and i hope to hell it breaks soon and thumps down on all police every fucking where.

[zizzo_no_ai]

The article doesn't mention any follow-up on Johnson and Schmidt- did they just get off doing this scot free?

[vvalkyri]

As of a day or two ago complaint had yet to be filed, but as of yesterday the mayor has requested review. the police department's facebook page is, shall we say, popular at the moment.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/08/29/st-paul-arrest-review-requested

[edit: while the incident happened at the end of January, Lollie only got his phone back at the end of July.]

[lafinjack]

As is the Facebook of the bank whose security guard supposedly reported Lollie for sitting down in the first place:

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/273348971.html

[moonbladem]

Here's a pic of the bank's lounge area: