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- ABC News
- October 19, 2018
List of needless 911 calls on blacks keeps growing
Here is a list of unnecessary 911 calls made on blacks this year.
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\"Calling the police on any person of color these days is an issue. They come, they shoot first and they ask questions later,\" Austin told \"Good Morning America.\" \"Knowing that and knowing everything that's going on in the media, why would you call the police on a child of color?\"
The video received thousands of comments and shares on social media, as users accused the woman, dubbed \"Permit Patty,\" of racism.
Ettel defended making the call and said she had nothing against the girl.
\"It was all the mother and just about being quiet,\" she said. \"I had been putting up with this for hours, and I just snapped.\"
Eating lunch
Oumou Kanoute, a student at Smith College in Massachusetts working as a teaching assistant and residential adviser, was eating lunch in a dorm common area on July 31 when an officer with the Northampton Police Department approached her. A white college employee called police on Kanoute, who she believed looked \"out of place,\" according to a statement from the school.
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\"I did nothing wrong, I wasn't making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black,\" Kanoute wrote on Facebook. \"It's outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.\"
Babysitting
On Oct. 7, Corey Lewis was babysitting two white children, ages 6 and 10, when an unidentified white woman approached them in a Walmart parking lot in a suburb of Atlanta.
\"She pulled up to my vehicle and asked if the kids were all right,\" Lewis told ABC's \"Good Morning America. \"I responded with, 'Why wouldn't they be?'\"
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Lewis said the woman followed him and the children home and then called 911. Police responded, questioned Lewis, and called the parents of the children to verify he was their babysitter.
Entering his apartment
On Oct. 13, D'Arreion Toles posted a video on his Facebook page of a white woman blocking him from entering the St. Louis apartment building where he is a resident. The woman, identified as Hilary Mueller, can be seen standing in the doorway asking what unit Toles lives in, and to see his key fob.
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She followed him to his door and watched him enter his unit. Toles told ABC News that 30 minutes later police showed up because Mueller had called 911. Sgt. Keith Barrett of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department confirmed a 911 call was made, but that no report was written.
Toles' video was viewed more than 5 million times and won Mueller the moniker \"Apartment Patty.\" Mueller was also fired from her job as a property manager.
Mueller told KTVI-TV, a Fox affiliate in St. Louis, that her \"only intent was to follow the direction I had been given by our condo association board members repeatedly. And that is to never allow access to any individual that you do not know.\"
Going to a bodega
On Oct. 10, a 9-year-old New York City boy, Jeremiah Harvey, was wrongly accused of groping a white woman in a corner store in Brooklyn. The woman, Teresa Klein, called the police and claimed the boy had grabbed her butt.
However, surveillance video from the store showed that Jeremiah's backpack brushed Klein's backside. When Klein was shown the video, she apologized. She was ridiculed on social media and nicknamed \"Cornerstone Caroline.\"
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During a community meeting days after the ordeal, Jeremiah delivered a simple message: \"Friendship is really the key.\"
The boy rejected Klein's apology.
Being a soccer dad
Gerald Jones claims he was just yelling instructions at his 13-year-old son during a youth soccer game in Ponte Vedra, Florida, when a white soccer official scolded him and then called sheriff's deputies on him even after he volunteered to leave the game.
Two St. Johns County sheriff's deputies responded to the field marshal's 911 call after she told a dispatcher she felt threatened by Jones, a claim other parents who witnessed the incident disputed.
The deputies let Jones go, but he has since demanded an apology from the field marshal, who has not been identified.
A parent, Ginger Williams, took a cellphone video of deputies questioning Jones and the field marshal and posted it on Facebook under the headline: \"Soccer while black.\" She referred to the field marshal as \"Golfcart Gail\" because she was riding a golf cart.
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