The Los Angeles Times published a short op-ed Tuesday asking all white people to stop calling the police on black people for no good reason.
The article was written by editorial board member Carla Hall and it scolded whites for calling the police on innocent blacks. (RELATED: Dr. Alveda King Says Trump Is Not A Racist)
“White people, could you stop calling the police every time you see a black person doing something ordinary?” the article begins.
“It used to be that white people only called the cops on young black men in hoodies walking down dark streets at night. (Still not a crime, but, in urban America, seemingly closer to a crime.) Now, we have an alarming rash of police calls on black people doing innocuous and innocent things,” Hall continued. “Or maybe this was always happening but now people have smartphones to record the incidents.”
Hall cited the incident at Starbucks in Philadelphia where an employee called the authorities on two black men after he told them they couldn’t use the restroom without making a purchase. She also discussed the story of an elderly neighbor calling the police on three black Airbnb guests whom he had never seen before.
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