Nextdoor and some Facebook neighborhood pages are real cesspools…
Sadly, the buyer learned that the neighborhood is full of a-holes and snakes… the hard way.
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This reminds me of that NY women who claimed her life was being threatened. There should be a fine for such people.
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The inflammatory nature of playing the race card may have prevented meaningful change here.
When this story made the news, the assertion was that the victims were racially profiled. So, now that the evidence shows that they weren’t profiled, is the case closed?
Police procedures should change so that this doesn’t happen again. Drawing guns in this situation is not acceptable. What if the victims didn’t speak English, or what if they were deaf? This could have escalated in a very bad way.
I can’t tell for sure, but based on bodycam evidence, the officer that made the prior arrest at the address was onsite, but arrived too late to say, “That’s not the car of the person I arrested last week.”
It’s also important to separate the neighbor’s call from what transpired. When a person makes such a call, they don’t have an ambush in mind. They just want the police to check things out.
And it is certainly unfair to label an entire neighborhood in a certain manner based on a single person’s actions.
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Can you link this evidence? I haven’t seen it, but I’m not following a lot of news right now - just looking at my google feed and catching up on cc every so often when we’re not out.
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The police body camera footage says nothing about whether the real estate agent and client were racially profiled by the neighbor who called the police.
While someone calling the police may not be deliberately trying to ambush someone (like Tyler Barriss did), those who may be prejudiced against some people may be prone to calling police on people they are prejudiced against than other people in the same circumstances. More frequently encountering police officer who are led to believe that you are a suspect is not a desirable position to be in (nor is it something that police officers like).
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Just because the Wyoming police claim that the incident wasn’t racially motivated doesn’t mean that is the truth.
This is my favorite. The person arrested drove a Mercedes, the car driven to the house was a Hyundai. The person who called 911 said that it was the same car.
Raise your hand if you confuse a Hyundai with a Mercedes?
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Neighbor:
“Last week Saturday the police came out … there was a young Black man that was squatting in a home that’s for sale, and I know they came and took him away and towed his car away. Well, he’s back there again,” the caller told dispatch. “The car’s sitting out front.”
The neighbor believed that it was the same person based on appearance, of which race is one component, and his car.
If the police don’t think they should have been put in that position, they can and should speak further to the neighbor to understand the motivation.
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In the police body camera video at https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/wyoming-police-release-video-of-officers-cuffing-realtor/ , starting at around 1:50, you can see portions of the supposed “Mercedes” or shots with it in the background (not all that close up). More prominently in the video, there is also a dark gray or black Chevrolet Malibu parked in front of the house.
It is probably this car:
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