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Even more everyday racial discrimination!

Reginald Fields, 12, is the owner of Mr. Reggie's Lawn Cutting Service. With several helping hands from his cousins, brothers and sisters, they are up with the sun every day working the neighborhood.

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His customer, Lucille Holt, said she was confused when she saw police, but quickly learned the neighbors called to complain that the group cut a section of their property (about a foot where the two properties butt together) and were in their yard.

Reggie Fields said the police said nothing to him and the kids. He finished the job and felt a little discouraged.

"I was like, that's a shame. I didn't know," Reggie said.

https://cnn.it/2u1IbG3

Angus or someone else who mocks these incidents, can you explain to me why a white person should call the policy when a 12 year old mows a foot into their lawn? Why would you do something like that?
 
Ph, it could just be that in some cases that the offenders lack the ability to communicate effectively or even lack the desire to do so. My neighbor (house directly behind mine) called animal control on me last week bc my dog was barking excessively between 9-10:30pm. Unfortunately I was at the hospital with my daughter while she was having emergency surgery so I couldn't bring the dog inside. The neighbor's first response was to call authorities.

Unfortunately, many instances like this (not mine specifically) are seemingly fueled by racist feelings of some degree that either make a person feel like they cannot communicate with someone or that harassment is a more viable option.
 
Things have gotten really bad when a white person can't even work up the nerve to tell a black kid to get off his/her lawn.
 
PhDeac said:
Things have gotten really bad when a white person can't even work up the nerve to tell a black kid to get off his/her lawn.
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Makes me wonder if the first person thinks that he/she is too good to actually talk to the second person. I have a hard time believing that they would be afraid.

I just don't really understand what causes people to act this way.
 
in a larger context, i can see people preferring to use the taxpayer funded police as an independent body for conflict resolution rather than getting into a pissing match, especially for women. it's just a shame we have a militarized police in many places rather than a simple keeper of the peace.
 
Such a strange thing to get so mad about. Just kind of pointing out that police have literally never been an "independent body." My bad.
 
so you're just sneering for no reason then? what's your interpretation of the word here
 
ImTheCaptain said:
in a larger context, i can see people preferring to use the taxpayer funded police as an independent body for conflict resolution rather than getting into a pissing match, especially for women. it's just a shame we have a militarized police in many places rather than a simple keeper of the peace.
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We've tried both for too long and it's clear it doesn't work.
 
sure, just pointing out why people call the police to deal with local disturbances rather than confronting it themselves
 
[h=1]Archdiocese of Washington apologizes after Maryland family kicked out of funeral[/h]
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-n...s-after-maryland-family-kicked-out-of-funeral

Hundreds of people showed up to remember Agnes Hicks, but it ended abruptly when someone knocked over and damaged the church's sacred golden cup, also known as a chalice.

Cellphones recorded the chaotic scene from the church pews as an argument between Pastor Michael Briese and the family carried on as the body of the 54-year-old rested in the open casket nearby.


A short time later, the family was seen carrying the casket out of the church to leave with shocked attendees and police cars in the parking lot.


“This was uncalled for and it really hurt me. It really did To see your loved one come there to rest and to be shut down like that,” Larry Hicks, the brother of Agnes Hicks said.


The family said Agnes Hicks was baptized as a young girl at the church in Charles County and it's where she had always wanted her funeral.


Her family said the cup was knocked over when someone went in for a hug and accidentally bumped into the chalice near the altar.


“That's when all hell broke loose. He literally got on the mic and said, ‘there will be no funeral, there will be no mass, no repass, everyone get the hell out of my church,’" Shanice Chisely, the daughter of Agnes Hick recalled. “He disrespected our family, he disrespected my mother. He called my mother 'a thing.'

He said, 'get this thing out of my church! Everyone get the hell out of my church!’ It was very sad. I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

The family said Briese then called the police.


“Bad enough we had to bury our own mother yesterday but for you to say she’s a 'thing’ and there will be no funeral. You're not a preacher. You’re not a pastor. You’re not a father of the Lord. You’re not any of that. You’re the devil,” Renetta Baker, the daughter of Agnes Hicks said.


When officers arrived, they determined the family was not in the wrong and escorted them to a funeral home in a different county where another pastor performed their funeral service.

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Angus and others, why would a pastor kick a grieving family out of his church and call the police over a cup?
 
ImTheCaptain said:
so you're just sneering for no reason then? what's your interpretation of the word here
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My point was that the police, pre-militarization or in its modern form, has never been a neutral third party. So in the context of the examples in this thread, when white people call the police, it is not to keep the peace or ask for neutral conflict resolution, but rather to reinforce existing hierarchies.
 
na, man. if i call the cops to go tell Johnny X to shut his dog up at 1 am it's not because i'm trying to enforce the patriarchy
 
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