What Happened To Karle Robinson?

Kansas man was detained at his own home.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas asked for a state and federal investigation into a Tonganoxie, a small town about 35 miles from Kansas City.

A black man was handcuffed by the cops as he moved into his own home. He was allegedly harassed by a police chief when he tried to file a compliant on racial bias.

Karle Robinson was moving furniture into his home when the cops arrived. They at first greeted and asked what he was doing. He told specifically he was moving furniture and he had a time limit to do such.

"I could use a hand with this," Robinson said to the officer who shined a flashlight on him.

Robinson spend the next eight minutes handcuffed, seated in front of his own house, treated like a burglary suspect while the officer waited for backup to check the story. The complaints that Robinson reported to chief Greg Lawson went unanswered.

The cops would soon order him to the wall and then they placed him in handcuffs.

They would search the home and then be let go.

"If I'd been a white man, you know that wouldn't happen. I'm being handcuffed right here on my own damn property."

In the video, Robinson did complain to the cops saying, "Is this all necessary?"

The officer said to him that he noticed a lot of break-ins. So the cops claim that a 61-year old Black man who is moving into his own home is associated with break-ins.

"You're guilty until proven innocent. They're think I'm stealing. I've been hearing this for 40 years -- getting pulled over, being searched. I'm not going to let this go. If it had been two in the afternoon, there would've been a fight."

If he'd been white, Robinson said, he would have been able to show his identification and go and retrieve the papers to the house -- without such suspicion and without handcuffs.