GOP New Jersey Official Calls 911 On 9-Year-Old Black Girl Catching Lanternflies

[RAB910]

Bobbi Wilson, a fourth grade student in Caldwell, New Jersey, was merely testing a homemade spray against the invasive lanternfly species on her street when a neighbor — a former Republican official — called the cops on her.

“The morning of October 22, our neighbor [Gordon Lawshe] called the police, identified himself and reported, ‘There’s a little black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she is doing, it scares me though,’ and included that she was wearing a hoodie,” Wilson’s mother Monique Joseph, said during a mayor and council meeting on Nov. 1, according to local outlet The Progress.

Wilson, 9, learned about regional “see it, squish it” campaigns to help stop the spread of the lanternflies while writing a school paper on their environmental impact. After finding a nontoxic spray recipe on TikTok, she went outside to test it ― only for Lawshe’s call to scare her from going outside again, according to BuzzFeed News.

Lawshe, 71, former local councilperson, co-head and treasurer of the Caldwell Republican Committee, and membership director of the Caldwell Community Center, told police they couldn’t “miss” the Black “small woman” — who was wearing a “hood.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-new-jersey-official-calls-police-on-nine-year-old-black-girl-catching-lanternflies_n_637255d2e4b0ca9acf26ffc9

[bullimiami]

1. the right thing to do would be apologize and help her with her experiments.

at 71 its not too late to learn humanity.

[RAB910]

2. He is a racist asshole (which made him a prime candidate to lead the local GOP)

The monster lived across the street from the poor girl. Calling the cops calling a child a "woman" saying he was "scared" and talking about a "hood"

This racist asshole tried to get the poor girl killed by the police.


This racist asshole robbed this girl of her innocence


This racist asshole is today's GOP

[Butterflylady]

4. This is a republican they are talking about

Not a human being.

[RAB910]

5. Many of them are not and the rest clearly have no problem with it

[MrsCoffee]

7. Actually did kind of the opposite.

Lawshe’s attorney Greg Mascera, claimed his client wasn’t racially profiling Wilson when he called 911. Mascera said an officer merely drove by to respond to the call and that “the mother’s assertion that [her daughter is now] afraid of cops is absurd.”

Denial, Egypt and all that.

[XorXor]

11. What an asshat. Why can't people just be decent?

[JI7]

8. The right thing would be to admit you(referring to gop official) are a piece of shit

[XorXor]

10. If it was an actual mistake of even an act of ignorance that wasn't done in malice

Then what you suggested would no doubt be how it would play out. This person would feel awful for what they did. But given the details of the situation, it sounds as if this was done with intentional harm intended. There is no room for growth or understanding on this person's part. I base this on the fact the both families have been neighbors for years and that they all know who lives on the block. Perhaps I am wrong, but I doubt it. In all likelihood this person is an unredeemable racist piece of shit who intentionally harassed a child. I'd be overjoyed if I'm shown to be mistaken, though.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. I wouldn't want him around my child. He knew what he was doing.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

3. When they get fixated on something

They never let it go. Hoodie?

[JI7]

9. Hoodie is the excuse for them targeting someone that is black including children

[Blue Owl]

6. A man-Karen!

[panader0]

12. So he hired a lawyer? If he wasn't scared by the 9 year old, he's scared now.

Get him Bobbi.

[Silent3]

13. Oh, she SAID it was for lanternflies...

...but we KNOW she was spraying stuff that turns you gay and makes you vote for Democrats!

[jonstl08]

14. An easy question

Saw a picture of this little girl. No way could he not see this was a child. He could have easily gone out there and asked this girl what she was doing. Also I understand this was one of the few if only black families on his street so no way he did not know who she was. This is a classic example of racial profiling

[RAB910]

16. Seemed like he was going out of his way to try and get this girl shot

[CatWoman]

17. ....