The issue of racial profiling is receiving more attention on a national scale. However, some white individuals continue to call 911 for completely irrelevant reasons. Reggie Fields, a twelve year old Ohio resident who proudly conducts Mr. Reggie Lawn Cutting service, became the subject of headlines around the country at the end of June after a white woman reported him to the authorities.
She obliged a complaint that the child, who was bowing the grass of her neighbor, had clipped the wrong area of the yard. After nearly two weeks had passed, the same family complained to the authorities about the youngster once more. This time, they were upset that Fields and other children were using a slip and slide that was located in the yard of a neighbor. According to Mike, on July 4, Linda Krakura made a report to the local police station stating that her children had destroyed a portion of the fence that surrounded her property.
On the 23rd June, Fields was hired to cut the grass of Lucille Holt Colden, Kirkora’s neighbor, and the woman who had hired Fields to trimmer lawn. At the time, Fields and other children were playing in the yard of Lucille holt Calvin. During an interview with Mike, Kirkhora defended the calls and argued that the race of the children, all of whom were black, has nothing to do with it. She stated.
The police have always warned us that if we feel intimidated, don’t approach these people, just contact us, don’t confront these people, just call us, she said. In the event that we believe it will be more of a challenge to go over and try to talk to anyone, we will, for the sake of our safety, just call the police. The police were dispatched to the reported event on July 4, but they determined that it was most likely a civil matter.
Mabel Heights Police Lieutenant Joe Mockerson told Mike that over the course of 18 years, krikorra’s family has placed approximately 60 calls to the police. The majority of those phone calls have been inquiries regarding Holt Colden or other members of her family. But on June 23, Kirkor’s husband phoned the police, and twelve year old Fields, who rallies relatives to mow lawns around his Cleveland suburb, found himself caught in the ongoing tensions between the neighbors. Fields mows lawns for a living and rallies relatives to help them. They called the police to report that.
The youngsters were mowing their grass, and the cops took the report. Who would do such a thing? Holt Colton says in a video posted to Facebook in June. After the incident. Following the officer’s receipt of the explanation of circumstances, they departed without issuing any citations. However, Fields was still disheartened by the occurrence. According to what he told the local reporters, they alleged I was cutting their lawn.
I was unaware of that fact. The first version of Fields tale went viral very fast on the Internet, becoming one of the most recent in a string of high profile events that have occurred in recent times in which onlookers have called the police on individuals of color for petty reasons. Shortly before Field story went viral, a white woman from South Carolina known as Pool Party Paula made headlines for insulting and hitting a black teenager who was at a community pool with a friend, telling them they didn’t belong there while she threatened to call the police.
The incident occurred shortly before the story about Fields went viral. A few days later, when police officers approached her, the woman assaulted them and they subsequently detained her. A week later, in a similar incident, a white man in Winston Salem, North Carolina lost his job when he called the police on a black mother and her son and questioned their use of a neighborhood pool. He also challenged the use of the.
Pool by other people in the neighborhood, and on Friday, a white property manager in Memphis, Tennessee was fired after she reported a black man to the police because he was wearing socks in a swimming pool. The reason she reported the man was because he was breaking the rules. In the month of June, a white woman in San Francisco phoned 911 on an eight year old black child who was selling water. The woman said that the girl’s mother was being too loud and that they were selling the water in an illegal manner.
Later, the woman Alice And stated that she had not, in fact, phoned the police. Nevertheless, the audio of the 911 call demonstrated that this was not the case. The incident is strikingly similar to one that occurred in Oakland in April when a white woman called the police on a black family who were grilling in a park because they were using the incorrect sort of grill.
These are not the only occurrences that have occurred, whether it’s a black firefighter conducting safety inspections in a predominantly white neighborhood, black teens shopping for a prom at a Missouri Nordstrom rack, a black family holding a funeral for a loved one, another black family eating at Subway, or a black real estate investor looking at a property. Over the past few weeks, people of.
Color have been repeatedly racially profiled, confronted by police, and in some cases, arrested after white business owners, employees, or bystanders. Many of the incidents have been shared on social media, which has brought the issue to the attention of people all over the country. This is especially true after two black men, Rashawn Nelson and Dante Robinson, were arrested for trespassing in April while they waited inside a Starbucks in Philadelphia for a business partner.
It serves as a reminder that decades after the end of legal segregation, spaces like clothing stores, coffee shops and universities remain strongly controlled along racial lines. The sentence was originally written as it serves as a reminder that decades after the end of legal segregation spaces like these, however, this raises the question of. Why exactly individuals are so fast to.
Call the police, particularly in light of the fact that there are racial inequalities in use in the force by the police, which makes people of color more likely to experience violence or harassment. The events that have taken place over the past few months, in conjunction with the scholarly study that’s been conducted on the topic of race and policing, suggest that it exacerbates preexisting tensions when people needlessly call the police on persons of color.
The recent round of occurrences demonstrates that there are some people who just don’t seem to care. Some white folks are reporting quite insignificant incidents to the authorities. When one considers the events that have taken place over the course of the past few months, one thing that stands out is how minor some of the alleged offenses are. Additionally, the fact that someone feeling suspicious or uncomfortable is enough to warrant calling law enforcement is another thing that stands out.
Take, for instance, the case of Lolaid Siembola, a black graduate student at Yale who woke up from a nap in a dorm common room only to be approached by police after a white classmate called 911, claiming that she wasn’t sure if Sien bola belonged in the dorm where she was sleeping. Siembola was confronted by the authorities because the white classmate claimed that she wasn’t sure whether or not Siam bulla belong there. Another example.
Three black filmmakers were staying at an airbnb in Rialto, California, when a white neighbor noticed that they didn’t wave to her and became suspicious of the filmmaker’s whereabouts. The woman called the police. Most of the airbnb eventually sided with the neighbor and said the following at a press conference held by the police if the kids had simply smiled at my neighbor, waved back and acknowledged her, and said, we’re just airbnb guests checking out, none of this would have ever happened.
But instead of being nice, they were nasty and considerate and impolite. The preceding instances illustrate how people of color are held to an arbitrary social expectations that are subjected to an increased level of scrutiny. This kind of examination is widespread in what white spaces are. According to Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson, white spaces are locations where black people and other people of color are typically not present or exist in a small quantity. According to Anderson, the repercussions for a person of color who enters one of these venues can have serious repercussions.
However, these occurrences may also be indicative of something else, such as a desire to maintain racial hierarchies by depicting people of color in the role of deviants who are subject to exclusion at any time. And because so much of the United States is still segregated along racial lines, white people sometimes react negatively toward black people who ventured into predominantly white areas. These occurrences can make it more difficult for communities of color to trust law enforcement.
However, another significant aspect of the discussion is on question of why the police are requested to respond to circumstances in which their presence is not actually required. When white people make false reports to the police about persons of color, they are contributing to a problem that already exists. This is due to the fact that minority groups are more likely to be subjected to harsh punishment from the judicial system or to be victims of police brutality.
These events have the potential to have a significant impact on the relationship that exists between police enforcement and communities of color. There is a significant disparity between the rates at which people of color and white people call the police, with people of color calling the police a significantly lower percentage of the time than their white counterparts.
