Ridiculous Police News (Specific Events): Twin Cities police are still frightened easily

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/MNReformer/statu...73755816669187
https://twitter.com/maxnesterak/stat...74383448158209

The 16-year-old went to Shingle Creek Crossing store in Brooklyn Center on March 19, 2019 and behaved “like a typical customer,” according to surveillance video described in the report.

A manager — a white woman also not named — called 911 to report that a Black “kid” with dreadlocks was “going through the store, playing with the balls… knocking stuff off shelves,” and that he wouldn’t leave after repeatedly being asked to do so.

Surveillance video shows the teenager did juggle a few items but put them back, while another store employee testified that he was not acting out of the norm and there was no reason to call the police on him.

The teenager did leave when asked by the manager but reentered in protest, believing he was asked to leave because he was Black.

The manager then had another store employee block the teen from reentering and called 911 again to report that the “tyrant customer” had returned and was touching her employees. Surveillance video does not show him touching employees.

Three police arrived shortly after the second 911 call was placed and one of the officers found the teenager shopping in a different store. He approached the teenager and reached to grab his arm, saying “Come here man.”

The teen stepped back, put up his hands and said, “Don’t touch me.”

The officer later testified that raising one’s hands up “is an assaultive posture demonstrating resistance.”

Another officer then entered the store, and together they threw the teenager to the ground, grabbed and pulled him by his dreadlocks, put a knee to his back and handcuffed him, according to the investigative report.

The teenager, while on the ground, cried out “Don’t kill me. I want to grow up.”

One officer replied: “Maybe you should stop fighting the police.”

He was then “jerked (up) by the handcuffs” and taken outside to a brick wall, where officers searched him. They did not give the teenager an opportunity to stand up on his own or provide any verbal instructions.

He was later transported to a hospital and charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing and obstructing the legal process — charges which were later dropped — and banned from entering Michaels for a year.

[Zealot]

ACAB

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[zoobernut]

ACAB

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People are scum for the most part. The manager was just as bad as the cops in this situation.

[Zealot]

AMAB

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[Zealot]

That's all Michael's are bad, support your local arts and crafts stores.

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[Salodin]

Bruh that kid said don't kill me I want to grow up, and now Michaels is gonna pay out heavy so that kid can grow up with ease. Going back to the store a second time was the smartest thing that kid ever did.

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[NynJa]

Did he get the job tho?

[Salodin]

He gonna get paid more than 10 years worth of jobs at least

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[Lucavi]

So are they going to re-train the cops not to say "Hands up!" because now that classifies as an "assaultive posture demonstrating resistance"?

[NynJa]

Why would they do that? Its just another excuse for them too shoot black people. "He was assuming an assaultive posture, I felt threatened".

[Salodin]

So are they going to re-train the cops not to say "Hands up!" because now that classifies as an "assaultive posture demonstrating resistance"?

God they're gonna pay the fuck out cause of this lmao

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[Lucavi]

Be careful what you say. That shit can and will be used against you.

You wait till activists get ahold of this juicy-ass soundbite.

So which way is it, cops? Hands up or hands down? Comply and be labeled "assaultive" or stand still and be labeled "non-compliant"?

Being a black kid is the ultimate fucking hard mode in this nation. You go in for a job application (something all the Red state governors keep yelling at black folks to do) and get the cops called on you by a manager who 100% had it out for you from the moment you set foot in the place.

[Day]

to be fair id question a black kid in a michael's too

[Milkster]

The racism is always palpable from you.

[Day]

whats he doin in there scrapbooking?

[Salodin]

Maybe he just wanted to lift himself up by his bootstraps

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[Day]

by juggling in michaels lol?

[Salodin]

He's right, the racism is palpable lol

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[Day]

Thats what it said he was doing in the story, doesnt mention applying for a job anywhere, not sure how thats racist?Anyways the joke was mostly about how white a store Michaels is

[Lucavi]

Oh, we got the joke, you're just an idiot.