Despicable act of racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this woman. While I am not a nearby neighbor, I don't doubt for one second that she refused to turn down the music and didn't comply with the police requests. My suspicion is that she saw an opportunity make a PR splash and did so.

There's lot of racism in policing. In this case, I suspect the issue was not racism.

+1. Anyone who runs to TheRoot with their story is suspicious. Everyone wants their ten minutes of fame. The police would note have cited her if she had not broken the law.

I live in the neighborhood and can say definitively that police have been called for noise to other homes but no one has ever been arrested for that noise. I think the cops went way overboard with this even if she didn't turn the music down right away - there was no reason to arrest her. Also the neighbors should be ashamed of themselves - you can't call or knock on the door and say something? This was a group of professional adults have a birthday party with a DJ.

With a DJ? I can imagine the decibel level. I would call the police.
No, I would not knock on the door.

There is something else to this story, I don't believe that bad white cop arrested good black women who ran to turn the music down right away. I think they began argue with police, read the part where she describes her friends in their best outfits who hold very high company's positions gathering on the driveway. Something happened and was left omitted from the story.

[Anonymous]

Memorial Day weekend the neighbors one block over had a live band in their garage. Must have been 50 cars parked up and down the street. I could hear the band clear as day. The music started at 9 pm. At midnight, a cop from the same block told them to shut it down. They did.

The party throwers were white, the cop black. Whole scenario like the article except it was a white people party and a black cop.

Well that and respect.

I call bs on this story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TheRoot publication has a race agenda. You should take everything published in it with a grain of salt and think for yourself. The stories often are greatly exaggerated. The woman broke the noise ordinance. Do you know how loud you have to be before breaking a noise ordinance? That's pretty loud. Same with barking dogs. I don't care what color your skin is - if you are violating the law and I have previously asked you to keep your dog quiet and you insist on having your loud parties and yapping dogs, then I will call the politce to enforce the law. And that's what happened here. As to TheRoot - they will publish only one side of the story so bear that in mind when you read anything taken from it.

This is hysterical. It's an African American publication for an African American audience. And most of the pieces are opinion pieces.

Exactly. That's what PP Just said. Opinion pieces, not balanced reporting

And its not MEANT to be balanced reporting...GEEZ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TheRoot publication has a race agenda. You should take everything published in it with a grain of salt and think for yourself. The stories often are greatly exaggerated. The woman broke the noise ordinance. Do you know how loud you have to be before breaking a noise ordinance? That's pretty loud. Same with barking dogs. I don't care what color your skin is - if you are violating the law and I have previously asked you to keep your dog quiet and you insist on having your loud parties and yapping dogs, then I will call the politce to enforce the law. And that's what happened here. As to TheRoot - they will publish only one side of the story so bear that in mind when you read anything taken from it.

This is hysterical. It's an African American publication for an African American audience. And most of the pieces are opinion pieces.

Exactly. That's what PP Just said. Opinion pieces, not balanced reporting

And its not MEANT to be balanced reporting...GEEZ

Good, we all agree. Let's move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Memorial Day weekend the neighbors one block over had a live band in their garage. Must have been 50 cars parked up and down the street. I could hear the band clear as day. The music started at 9 pm. At midnight, a cop from the same block told them to shut it down. They did.

The party throwers were white, the cop black. Whole scenario like the article except it was a white people party and a black cop.

Well that and respect.

I call bs on this story.

Why does the fact that the white party-goers were treated differently make you not believe this story? That's the whole point that she was treated differently because she was black.

[Anonymous]

If you give me a gift basket that includes ear plugs I am totally calling the police on you when quiet hours start. It means you know you are going to be loud which is obnoxious.

BTW, her story doesn't match her story in the WaPo article. It is hard to keep lies straight when lying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Memorial Day weekend the neighbors one block over had a live band in their garage. Must have been 50 cars parked up and down the street. I could hear the band clear as day. The music started at 9 pm. At midnight, a cop from the same block told them to shut it down. They did.

The party throwers were white, the cop black. Whole scenario like the article except it was a white people party and a black cop.

Well that and respect.

I call bs on this story.

Why does the fact that the white party-goers were treated differently make you not believe this story? That's the whole point that she was treated differently because she was black.

The question is -- if a white person refused to comply with a police request to turn down the music for 20 mins, would they be arrested? My best guess, though I don't know, is yes.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I could hear the music playing from over two blocks away, it was THAT loud. No sympathy for her here.

[Anonymous]

PP here

The Root is a joke, they have as much credibility as Faux News.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you give me a gift basket that includes ear plugs I am totally calling the police on you when quiet hours start. It means you know you are going to be loud which is obnoxious.

BTW, her story doesn't match her story in the WaPo article. It is hard to keep lies straight when lying.

+1. If you tell me in advance "Hey I plan to be a big ol' d-bag Sunday night" you've already primed me to be pissed about it and I'll react that much quicker when you are, in fact, a d-bag.

[Anonymous]

What was the point of giving out ear plugs? That alone tells me she damn well knew what she was doing and basically told her neighbors that she would be doing whatever the hell she wanted.

And of course she wants to play the victim here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this woman. While I am not a nearby neighbor, I don't doubt for one second that she refused to turn down the music and didn't comply with the police requests. My suspicion is that she saw an opportunity make a PR splash and did so.

There's lot of racism in policing. In this case, I suspect the issue was not racism.

+1. Anyone who runs to TheRoot with their story is suspicious. Everyone wants their ten minutes of fame. The police would note have cited her if she had not broken the law.

I live in the neighborhood and can say definitively that police have been called for noise to other homes but no one has ever been arrested for that noise. I think the cops went way overboard with this even if she didn't turn the music down right away - there was no reason to arrest her. Also the neighbors should be ashamed of themselves - you can't call or knock on the door and say something? This was a group of professional adults have a birthday party with a DJ.

I hope the neighbors ( who could have just walked up to her door but instead) got her arrested get their fair share of karma! Hatred begets hate.

[Anonymous]

I think one point to consider is that black people are expected to be perfect. I've heard people say that *maybe* she scoffed, or that she was slow to comply. But, it's not like all white people act the same, or all black people act the same. Some white and black people would be exceptionally contrite and rush to comply. But, people don't allow for any deviation for blacks. So, if a white person scoffed and was slow to comply, I'm sure it still wouldn't have resulted in an arrest. That's wherein the problem lies.

If a black person doesn't execute a traffic stop perfectly (without knowing what perfectly means) they risk being shot. Whites have much greater leniency. They may piss off a cop, but the ramifications are that they get a ticket, instead of a warning. I wish people would try to understand this more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think one point to consider is that black people are expected to be perfect. I've heard people say that *maybe* she scoffed, or that she was slow to comply. But, it's not like all white people act the same, or all black people act the same. Some white and black people would be exceptionally contrite and rush to comply. But, people don't allow for any deviation for blacks. So, if a white person scoffed and was slow to comply, I'm sure it still wouldn't have resulted in an arrest. That's wherein the problem lies.

If a black person doesn't execute a traffic stop perfectly (without knowing what perfectly means) they risk being shot. Whites have much greater leniency. They may piss off a cop, but the ramifications are that they get a ticket, instead of a warning. I wish people would try to understand this more.

This. She may have been an asshole and a bad neighbor, but those things don't justify being arrested. There are lots of assholes and bad neighbors in that very neighborhood who are white, and they don't get arrested.

[Anonymous]

Most people don't get arrested for noise complaints because it doesn't take them twenty minutes to turn down the music.

Cops tend to not like being ignored, she got what she deserved.