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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/walgreens-calls-cops-black-man-diabetes-trying-buy-product-insulin-pump-scarring/Walgreens calls cops on black man with diabetes for trying to buy product for insulin pump scarring
Wesley Dozier told local news outlet KSDK that he stopped at the Walgreens on Monday night to pick up personal products to help with scarring from his insulin pump.
But employees accused him of stealing beauty products.
I was more than anything shocked, he said. I felt threatened, but I was just simply confused.
Dozier said he was searched by police. But he was released when they failed to find any stolen items.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)has eaten their conscience.
Initech
(100,068 posts)I swear someone must be putting something in the water supply to make people this angry and hateful.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)And it's been going on for 40 years with very little counter from the left. Then, in 2008, Palin tested the water for putting obvious racist rhetoric out in the public sphere & she wasn't smacked down or shamed for it, by either the GOP or the media. One wanted votes, the other ratings. And here we are.
Ignoring hate radio was the biggest mistake the left made.
Initech
(100,068 posts)We've been steamrolled, bullied and harassed by AM radio bigots for far too long. And the fact that nothing was done about it before it started is a huge stain, and now we're stuck with this bloated gasbag in the White House. Everything soulless and wrong with this country has come to fruition.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)Apologies for sounding like I was lecturing.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)That narrative has been allowed to dominate for decades. Democrats have been on the defensive instead of going on offense, which is why "conservative media" or "corporate media" aren't household terms, while "liberal media" is.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)They abandoned the narrative & even now don't try to capture it. George Lakoff has been telling it like it is for decades & no one in the party bothers to read him.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)SamKnause
(13,101 posts)I truly don't know what the fuck is wrong with some people !!!
Was it their first encounter with a black person and it triggered terror ???
Trump has been trying to start a race war since he rode down the escalator
before announcing his candidacy.
He has divided this country like no other.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)This was just another instance of straight up racial profiling.