Video of woman who called cops on black men bbq-ing in Oakland.

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This woman waited two whole hours on her phone for cops to come then broke down sobbing at the end over the ordeal she had went through (she also confiscated a card of a woman there who stayed to video her craziness and be a witness just in case the incident got out of hand.

The video is off the chain with cray cray, especially at the end. These nobodies need to mind their business and get off their attempts to control black peoples' lives.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. Not clear what caller took from witness. Anyone catch that? I'm not surprised racist self proclaimed

...barbecue park inspector of Black people turned incident around stating, implying she was the victim, that they were following her, harassing her, then is literally crying to officer. I hope that they, file a complaint, sue her ass for stalking, hate crime.

What is a godsend is the advent of the video phone, ever one is now a reporter in real time, can then up load to social media. Thank goodness there were plenty of witnesses, and video of her ruining a perfectly innocent gathering at a park on a Sunday.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Eventually, you stop caring about the problem and wish everyone would just shut up....

It is entirely possible that there is a park rule banning charcoal-- charcoal is a worse burning and fire hazard than gas grills, and leaves ash that someone has to clean up. And it smokes. All reasons why persnickety local lawmakers see as good reasons to pass more rules.

But, to call the police about "illegal charcoal grilling" is over the top. And to do more than just ignore the caller just adds to the stress.

So everyone just shut up and go back to whatever you were doing.

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4. I don't get your post. Whatever many are doing is calling cops on POCs who are innoncent...

or engaged in a petty civil matter that should be resolved by adults talking to other adults, or maybe by certain adults minding their own business instead of calling in cops who quite often escalated the situation unnecessarily (see Tamir Rice, John Crawford and on and on and on).

Do you want people to continue doing that?

Using cops as personal racism valets is the issue and it needs to stop.

The recent Yale University dorm situation and the doxxing of Sarah Braasch is a controversial response as to how to stop the busybody, racist callers and represents a ratcheting up of the situtation as another issue is inserted into the conversation—should racist callers be allowed to slink away undetected after using police to do their dirty work for them or should they suffer consequences also by having their identity exposed, balancing the consequences their victims often suffer as a result of police escalation?

Until false complaint laws are instituted and/or enforced against the racist callers doxxing will probably continue.

[Igel]

7. Begging the question ...

is increasingly our national pastime.

[Downtown Hound]

10. I read that there is a rule, but it's never enforced and broken all the time

Which is why ultimately, the police let them continue with their BBQ, charcoal grill and all. This lady just happened, by sheer coincidence no doubt, to pick on a black family for breaking a rule that is broken all the time with no consequences.

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15. Possibly, but I doubt she would've done that to a group of whites.

She spent two hours of her time and damned if she wasn't going to to put those people "in their place", only to dissolve into a sobbing, pitiful bundle of self-righteous, put-upon, victim-hood herself in front of the cop who finally got there.

I'm so glad the bbq-ers blithely ignored her and continued enjoying their outing. The fact that they payed no attention to her attempt to control them probably infuriated her even more.

[Downtown Hound]

16. She never would have done that to a group of whites

Whether or not she is consciously aware of that or not I don't know. But no way would she ever have done that to a group of whites.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. The article says a toddler was burned by discarded charcoal ashes.

Obviously people aren’t going to take their used charcoal home with them. You can’t safely throw it in the trash. So it gets left on the ground where some kid in bare feet might walk through it (not to mention someone else has to clean it up).

That’s why the park set up designated fixed permanent grills for people who want to use charcoal. They ask that you leave the charcoal in the grill when finished.


That said, I don’t get Park nazis. There is something about living near a park that apparently makes people think they are designated rules enforcers.

Apparently a small “children only” park near me has a neighbor who locks people in with a bike lock if he sees you in there with a dog. Yes dogs are against the rules but so is unlawful restraint/kidnapping. Apparently he screams at people if your dog sniffs the bushes as you walk past the park. The guy is going to catch a beating.

I made the mistake of joining a neighborhood Facebook page. Oh vey, are there a lot of suspicious white people scared every time a black man walks past their house. What a train wreck.

[canetoad]

3. Is everyone sure

That Sarah Sanders was in Washington at the time?

[IluvPitties]

5. This is orchestrated by white supremacists.

I believe this shit has to be coordinated to make black people feel uncomfortable anywhere.

[dalton99a]

6. "Police are not a private security for any white person that's offended by the presence

of black folks in our public spaces."
- Oakland Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-calls-police-oakland-barbecue_us_5af50125e4b00d7e4c18f741

[cwydro]

12. Kind of funny actually.

I remember a poster here lecturing me about how great California is from the rest of the country.

Lol. Bigots are everywhere. Sad that some here think their part of the country is exempt.

Um, nope.

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17. Absolutely. It's kind of ironic though that she...

would pull that crap in Oakland, which is even more left-leaning than San Francisco in some ways.

[Tipperary]

8. Oh wow, and not in the south!

Where are all the Cali haters?

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9. Huh? Cali haters? This stuff happens all over the country.

[Tipperary]

11. Because if this happened in the south.

This would be a south hate thread in a skinny minute. You seem to be a littltle slow on the uptake here today.

Yes, it happens EVERY fucking where. Which was my POINT!

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14. You're not being very clear.

My stating that it happens all over the country in response to your "where are all the Cali haters" means I'm slow on the uptake?

Seriously? Who even knows what "where are all the Cali haters" means?

Making a comment on the racist caller instead of interpreting the OP as an anti-The South statement would be a good start at helping people understand what you're getting at.

I've live in different parts of the country, as have many here, and we know it's not just a "The South" problem.

[LanternWaste]

19. The alleged oppression of the south is bemusing.

The alleged oppression of the south is bemusing.

But being from TX myself, I s'pose I simply ignore it as inconsequential, rather than allow myself to get petulant, overly-emotional and hysterical over it.

But yeah... I'm slow on the uptake as well, and imagine that should I take offense at every regional snark on DU, my time would be spent with a red-faced but righteous rage.

Good luck with that, Tex! Ironically enough, since you're the one who brought up the irrelevancy of south-hating into the thread.

[moriah]

18. I'm Southern and no non-Southerner who hears me speak could not know it.

Maybe the story should be that in California, another white woman used her privilege to intervene and got a very different story from how the black witnesses had been treated, and documented the entire event, and ended up being the one escalating it to demanding her business card back and leaving this women crying about being harassed.

I'd love to see a video of that in the South -- us white folks in the South standing up for the victims of racism we see rather than ignoring it.

But these stories of cops continuously getting called for living while black are coming from all across the country. Of course it's not just a Southern thing.

If you've lived here for more than a decade, though, and want to tell me you haven't seen a single bit ot racism in your time -- well, is it perhaps because you lived in one of the areas you simply don't see black people, period? I've lived in some of those places myself, and quite a few hippies bought land near old "sundown towns". The school board is great. Absolutely no racial diversity because no one has moved there because of fear of the racists nearby, but also they're liberal as heck in the curriculum and a gay guy can walk in drag through town and get friendly greetings.

In Arkansas.

They'd love it if a few not-pale people actually felt safe enough to live there, but the two nearest chain grocery stores.... in both towns there's a,lot of history of people getting hurt. The gay guy can put on his redneck drag for groceries, but you can't change the color of your skin.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. Thanks, guys.

That crying was so fake.