Just because it took me a minute to find it, and it did not appear to be in the story you linked to, here you go.
Does it have to be SLJ, or can he use alternates? Fishburne is pretty good at glaring.
A coupon for some incontinence products, at that.
6 squad cars seems like overkill.
You should see how many 8x10 color glossy photos with pictures and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one was they took.
Woo Hoo, my hometown Clayton in the national news! In your face, Ladue!
Circles and arrows. :smack:
Heavy.com dug a little deeper. The perps spent 5 days in jail. They have a court date on Aug 2. The son and brother of the 2 victims praised the police for their handling of the situation.
Oof. My family stayed at the Sheraton in Clayton not too long ago. I can’t believe after the negative attention on West County in recent years, they haven’t cleaned up their act, at least as far as doing some basic PR damage control of apologizing. SMH
The glamour shots of the pancakes and bacon were pretty well done, I heard.
Hah - as you may know, every suburb is its own little world in St. Louis. City of Clayton (how pretentious is that btw) wouldn’t give two shits about West County PR. I left in ‘88, but from the sound of things it doesn’t appear as though much has changed.
This is ridiculous. There is no law that prohibits calling the police for something stupid?
From the article:
“… the exasperated deputy explains that he’d heard there had been a fight, and that this was the first time he had been called to address a basketball foul.”
That night:
“How was your day, honey? Catch any bad guys?”
“No, but I T’d a guy for a flagrant and ran him.”
“Huh?”
“I just need a beer.”
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This is ridiculous. There is no law that prohibits calling the police for something stupid?
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Of course there are laws, but getting a conviction would be nearly impossible. How do you prove someone called 911 purely out of spite, or fraudulently?
911 dispatchers get calls from white people complaining about black people doing common things literally every single day. There are several columns about this phenomenon floating around now, but it’s stuff like - I really am not joking here, this is totally what they get calls about - “Black people are parking in front of my house,” or “Black people are jogging on our street,” or “Black people are having a garage sale.” I am completely serious.
The 911 dispatch operator HAS TO SEND SOMEONE. 99.999% of the time they must send cops; it’s just not an option not to because if something does happen and someone gets hurt and you didn’t send anyone it’s deep shit. Every jurisdiction has a way of prioritizing calls, of course; “I don’t like the black people playing cards in the park” will get a cop car sent whenever the cops can get around to it, whereas “Someone is shooting” gets cop cars sent at high speed. But they have to come. In the case of BBQ Becky, 911 was called twice; the first time for “Black people are having a barbeque,” the operator assigned it lowest priority and actually the cops never got there for that call. The cop who showed up was responding to the SECOND call, made by someone else over an hour later when BBQ Becky got into a physical confrontation with the campers.
The 911 operator just doesn’t have the option of saying “Dude, grow a fucking sack and get back out there, fouls happen.” They have to send the cops, however embarrassing that might be.
Yeah, I get that 911 has to send the police. But once they get there, and the guy says “He fouled me too hard!”, it seems like that would be something to prosecute.
I can understand that they have to send someone for every call claiming some crime. But why do they have to send someone even when there’s no crime claimed? “Some black people are having a barbecue” shouldn’t require any response at all.
BBQ Betty’s complaint was that black people were using a charcoal grill in an area where park rules prohibited charcoal grills.
Permit Patty’s official complaint was that the black kid selling water didn’t have a permit (although it sounds like the root cause was that this kid and her mom were being obnoxiously loud, which isn’t exactly a crime).
Asshole Adam insisted that a black woman show her ID to prove she was authorized to use the pool, and called the cops when she refused to do so and refused to leave.
Starbucks: the two black guys were asked to leave because they weren’t ordering anything, and the cops were called when they refused to leave.
-CVS: the black woman was asked to leave because the clerk suspected her coupon was fake, and the called the cops because she refused to leave.
Cite: It’s not just “BBQ Becky”: Racist 911 calls are more common than you think - Vox
Expert discussion: Why white people keep calling the cops on black Americans - Vox
ACLU: How Police Can Stop Being Weaponized by Bias-Motivated 911 Calls | ACLU
According to the article, there is a map that says that that area is off limits to charcoal, but, not only do (white) people use charcoal in that area all the time, there are permanent charcoal grills installed by the park services in those areas.
True, they didn’t have a permit. Does your (white) neighbor’s kid get a permit before he bangs on your door selling candy for his school fundraiser?
If he was asking everyone to show their ID, and she refused, that would be a point. She was singled out for needing to be ID’d, while other (white) people around her were not.
They were waiting for the rest of their party to arrive, something that (white) people do all the time.
The coupon was real. The clerk did not call the police on other (white) people who use real coupons.