I'm Just Planting Seeds In My Neighborhood! Why Did You Call The Law On Me?

A community activist from Detroit gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Three white women accused the activist of stalking and threatening them with violence. That wasn't the case. He was just working in a community garden trying to help revitalize his neighborhood.

Gardening while Black. Another incident in which a white person called 911 on a Black person who was minding their own business. Now it appears the three women involved wanted to send this innocent man to Offender U.

A Michigan man is released from the iron college after three women accused of a crime he didn't commit. The man was hauled into court on charges of stalking.

The judge dismissed this case and slammed the women who accused him of the crime.

Marc Peeples was just trying to help the community out. He was a Detroit man who worked in a community garden. Peeples was accused by three white women who claimed he stalked them in their neighborhood.

The 32 year old man had the law called on him numerous times.

The judge who sent him up the creek was apologetic to the man and threatened criminal charges on the women.

"[The three white women] should be sitting at the defendant's table for stalking and harassment charges, not Mr. Peeples," said Michigan district court judge E. Lynise Bryant.

They claimed that Peeples was a pedophile and that he threatened violence towards them with a gun.

The three women made dozens of phone calls to the police during a course of 2017 and recently this year.

The women who were identified as Deborah Nash, Jennifer Morris, and Martha Callahan, apparently objected to Peeples' garden that he planted in a vacant playground.

Peeples asked Black Twitter to avoid calling them the names we've infamously tagged white women who called the law on innocent Black folks. He doesn't want an adjective to their names.

NO "BBQ BECKYS" PLEASE!



Judge Bryant told the Detroit Metro Times that she discovered that the women were actually the ones who initiated contact with Peeples in the first place and "engaged in a very targeted and constant harassment of the young man."

"It was blatant racism. They didn't like the fact that a Black man was in so-called 'their' neighborhood without their permission," Peeples told the news outlet.

His friend started a GoFundMe to help him cover the unfortunate legal costs.

One of the white women who called the law on an innocent Black man.

"It's frustrating to have accusations placed on you with no merit, and they get you all the way into court to go to trial," Peeples added. "If someone believed their story and I was found guilty, I would be in county jail doing up to year just because they don't want .... a black person in their area. They get to ruin my life, say anything they want, and then they get to go on with their lives."

To make the situation more infuriating, there appears to be no punishments facing the women.

Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Maria Miller said the women were "deemed to have provided credible allegations" that supported the charges. But she added, "At trial the three complainants were not able to present testimony in the case that supported the three counts of stalking and the judge dismissed the case."

In the meantime, Peeples has reflected on how this has affected his life and warned others not to frivolously view these accounts.

"People are giving these ladies funny nicknames but this is serious," he said. "This is my life, what these people are doing is not cute — it's ugly."

Peeples had to post a $3,500 to get out. He had to pay legal fees. He also lost his job and will have trouble trying to find a job because of this.

He is telling Americans that voting matters.

He is saying that Gretchen Whitmer is the perfect only choice for the state of Michigan. He is saying that picking her opponent Bill Schuette will only advocate for more of this. The state went to Donald J. Trump in 2016.

I bet you money that Michigan hasn't seen much change since Trump took office.

Detroit is still the same since Trump's been office. The 36th District Court is by far one of the worst in the nation. I'm a product of that kangaroo court. I am serious, we need to get off our asses and vote this Midterm.

In Donald J. Trump's America, you see a lot of white people calling the law on people of color.

From Starbucks to this gentleman gardening in a neighborhood, the reactions are the same. We're shocked, applauded and rallying to protest. Yet, we're not going out to the ballot box with that frustration.

Yeah, we're creating permanent names for white folks who call the law on people of color. But it's not changing their minds. It's only making it more likely they'll stop calling the law on actual threats.

Police reform is definitely needed.

The emergency 911 shouldn't be used as weapon. It's there for serious matters.

The Republicans are openly embracing white extremism. It's been a product of theirs since Richard Nixon got the keys to the White House. Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have brought white nationalism back. Donald J. Trump is a product of years of Republican fear mongering and vitriol.

A man trying to help his community gets harassed by white women.

The Republican Party has control of the White House, Congress, state governorships and the junk food media. Why are they complaining about the obstruction from the Democrats?

They control almost everything.

They are hoping that we forgot that all three branches of government are controlled by Republicans. You can't blame the Democrats when you control the keys to the car. You can't blame the Democrats when you're in charge of an agenda.

They want to ignore the fact that they've failed to govern during the budget resolutions. They were responsible for passing legislation that hurts the middle class, farmers and small business owners.

Mind you, under Republicans, we seen a rise in opioids. They claim that it's Mexico's fault for the spread of opioids. However, since Donald J. Trump stopped those "bothersome regulations," we have seen a spike.

Are you tired of white people calling the police on people of color?

Hell yeah!

Are you getting tired of Republicans trying to rewrite history?

Trust me I am.

Are you already registered to vote?

Good.

You planning on voting?

Good.

Are you going to vote?

Yes. I'm voting Democrat

Yes. I'm voting Republican.

No. I'm not voting.

The Republican Party is going to win on the culture war. Bringing up things to scare White voters has worked before and will continue to work if we don't get off our asses and vote this year.

But the Republican Party is far from the family values they've been peddling for years.

These incidents of white people calling the law on people of color is a perfect example of why we need to vote.

VOTE.

VOTE EARLY.

VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT.

VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6, 2018.

Restore sanity. Hold Donald Trump and Republicans accountable for their failure to govern. Hold them responsible for playing dirty politics and advocating the genocide of people of color through austerity, gun violence, voter suppression and fear mongering.