The Briefing Room

General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on July 11, 2018, 02:30:34 pm

Title: Woman calls cops on black 12-year-old boy delivering newspapers in Ohio neighborhood
Post by: 240B on July 11, 2018, 02:30:34 pm

Daily News
By NICOLE HENSLEY
JUL 10, 2018

A fledgling paperboy working alongside his mother in suburban Columbus, Ohio, came face-to-face with a cop after a neighbor thought he was up to no good.

The nosy neighbor spied the 12-year-old boy, who is black, hop out of a van and walk up to a handful of Upper Arlington homes Friday. She initially assumed he was delivering newspapers, she told authorities, but soon thought otherwise.

Black Yale graduate student has the cops called on her just for sleeping in a dorm »

"I noticed they were walking up to houses with nothing in hand and one of them came back with something," the 911 caller said, according to WSYX-TV. "It seemed kind of suspicious."

(http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/j_6gdF-6rALriCWVQ_D6Zrq1J-I=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5b456a90/turbine/nydn-banner-paper-20180710/600)


(more)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-ohio-child-police-delivering-newspapers-20180710-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-ohio-child-police-delivering-newspapers-20180710-story.html)

OK, that's it! I'm done. I officially no longer know what a Black person is. These guys are as Black as I am White! or something ... like that ... I don't know ... I give up

Title: Re: Woman calls cops on black 12-year-old boy delivering newspapers in Ohio neighborhood
Post by: edpc on July 11, 2018, 03:49:56 pm

! No longer available (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FsxJfcFVnpo#)

Title: Re: Woman calls cops on black 12-year-old boy delivering newspapers in Ohio neighborhood
Post by: Sighlass on July 11, 2018, 04:26:51 pm

Ohh good grief, old lady keeping eye on neighborhood (but too old to probable ask personally) phones in what looked suspicious and the left freaks out. I don't blame her and too many videos prove it is dangerous to ask people of color anything now days without them turning it into something ugly.

Non-story of the day so far, but the day is young.

Title: Re: Woman calls cops on black 12-year-old boy delivering newspapers in Ohio neighborhood
Post by: tje on July 11, 2018, 06:41:19 pm

Here's the original article:  https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/upper-arlington-police-called-on-child-delivering-papers

I read it and saw no mention of race.  Appears a news paper in New York might be stirring the pot.