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CNN just played the 9-1-1 call that reported this man's "supposedly" suspicious behavior. It seems that he was walking outdoors, going back and forth in front of the store at least five or six times, supposedly looking in, and, yes, with his hands in his pockets. (Yeah, it was cold!)
The store is in a black neighborhood, employs mostly blacks, and due to past robberies, employees were nervous about this man, so someone made a 9-1-1 call, which I heard in its entirety on CNN.
How should the police respond to this call? The man was obviously guilty of doing NOTHING WRONG.
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TexasMommaWithAHat
Dec 2014
OP
I'm white and was questioned for about 20 minutes by cops for a similar issue
mythology
Dec 2014
#38
Almost sounds like the movie Minority Report, except there was no crime that was being
still_one
Dec 2014
#29
Since the issue is that the police hassled this guy for no reason, maybe the proper
hughee99
Dec 2014
#34
Probably 20-30% of the calls for service when I was a deputy were that kind of BS
Lee-Lee
Dec 2014
#39