Staying at an AirBnB while "Jamaican"... as it were.....

[pangaia]

This is freakin' Bob Marley's freakin' grandkid for freakin' sakes.




Bob Marley's Granddaughter Suing California Police After They Mistook Her for an Airbnb Burglar
Newsweek Christina Zhao,Newsweek 22 hours ago

Bob Marley's Granddaughter Suing California Police After They Mistook Her for an Airbnb Burglar
Newsweek Christina Zhao,Newsweek 22 hours ago
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Bob Marley’s granddaughter is reportedly suing California law enforcement officials who detained her and her friends after mistaking them for thieves at an Airbnb in San Bernadino.

Donisha Prendergast, a 33-year-old filmmaker and relative of the Jamaican reggae artist, and her two friends Kells Fyffee Marshall and Komi-Oluwa Olafimihan, served the Rialto Police Department with notice of a pending lawsuit yesterday, reported New York Daily News.

Last Monday, the three friends were swarmed by police while checking out of an Airbnb rental. In a Facebook post, Fyffe-Marshall said upon leaving the property, they found themselves surrounded by “7 cop cars.” The officers then demanded the women to put their hands in the air and informed them that “there was also a helicopter” tracking their movements.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bob-marley-apos-granddaughter-suing-165842761.html

[dalton99a]

1. FWIW that area (Fontana-Rialto) used to be a KKK stronghold

Pursued by reporters, photographers and a small crowd, Ku Klux Klan members march down an empty street in Fontana, November 28, 1981. (Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)

[Oneironaut]

2. This is a perfect example of how systemic racism maintains itself

This was a “white neighborhood.” Anyone in that neighborhood who is not white must be up to no good, because there is no other reason they would be there. This is partly why George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin as well. There’s a general sense in our society that there some places where racial minorities don’t “belong.”

This may or may not be a conscious thought. The bias might be in the sub-concious as well, causing bias. This would, for example, make someone more likely to call the police on black people, because subconscious bias causes them to perceive a threat where there is none. These people will insist that they are not racists, and they may not believe themselves to be.

That is why we need to force further integration of minorities into areas assumed to be “white.” Only then will we break the mold. Society really does not like to change, but it has to.

[pangaia]

10. To just touch on one of the points you make....

I am not so sure I agree with 'forcing further integration of minorities into areas assumed to be “white.”

IF, and only IF forcing were the correct approach, then why not force 'white' people to live in 'minority' areas? You only suggest the opposite...

[Oneironaut]

14. Imo, it only goes one way.

Being white is already the “default” race in the US. Therefore, white people can go anywhere and live anywhere without fear of systemic persecution. There are no “minority” areas that are systematically enforced as minority-only - there are only “white-exclusive” areas. My point is that certain groups of people are kept out of certain areas. Those areas are treated as restricted zones through law enforcement and economics. There are no written rules - they’re culturally enforced.

Moving white people out of their bubbles still allows those bubbles to remain. I’m more concerned with moving diversity in. Those “bubbles” need to be upended. The flow one way is much more important than the flow the other way.

I should also say that I don’t literally mean “forcing.” A better description would be a “long, government-encouraged migration into white bubbles using incentives for the working poor.” This issue goes hand-in-hand with the shrinking middle class.

[malaise]

3. They will settle

They will learn

[pangaia]

9. I was thinking of you when I saw this and posted...

[malaise]

12. It's all the talk here

Believe me

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I'm not sure why they are suing the cops for answering a 911 call...

Agreed it was uncomfortable, at the least, but apparently no one was thrown to the ground, arrested, shot, or otherwise harmed.

Cops got the call, investigated, and left. Many people, myself included, have been questioned as possible criminal suspects. In my case, it was a dragnet for a particularly brutal crime and the real offender looked a lot like me. I was hauled into an interrogation room for an hour or so until they were comfortable I was not the guy. They did check my "alibi' just to properly follow up and close my file. (They caught the guy a couple of weeks later)

That's what cops do. It's their job. Complain, sue, and raise hell when they don't do it properly.

[WillowTree]

5. Really!

Someone sees people they don't know leaving their neighbor's house (and in another article I read, they said they were aware that the neighbor was not at home but didn't know that the house was an AirBNB) so they called the police who responded. Since there don't seem to be assertions that the police manhandled or otherwise mistreated them, I'm not quite sure why everyone is jumping on the cops for following up and questioning them to be sure things were OK and then leaving them to go their way.

[HipChick]

6. The white neighbor called the cops because black people were checking out

and didn't wave to her...you really see nothing wrong with that?

[WillowTree]

7. I'm not sure that's exactly what the neighbor said.......

.......what, exactly, did the police do wrong here? They're the ones being sued.

[HipChick]

8. Here we go again...

[malaise]

11. Maybe telling me to put my hands in the air and telling me helicopters are in the air

when I have done not one fuck wrong is reason enough.

It's one thing to get a call - it's another to treat me like a criminal for no good reason.

[LanternWaste]

13. I'm confident you'll provide a link to this article, yes?

"n another article I read, they said they were aware that the neighbor was not at home but didn't know that the house was an AirBNB..."

I'm confident you'll provide a link to this article, yes?