Friday, August 25, 2023

My Son Was Placed In Handcuffs Because He Took Out The Trash!

Would you want this to happen to your child?

Before I get started, I want to acknowledge the Ef-2 tornadoes that ravished Southern Michigan which affected the Lansing and Grand Rapids area. The tornadoes touched down in Saranac and Webberville. At least five people are killed.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and the U.S. Representatives of Michigan were notified.

Okay. 

The Kia Boyz are a threat to owners of Kias and Hyundai vehicles. These idiots break into vehicles because they learned this through TikTok. The price for this has been children dying from fatal car accidents, children and adults being tried in criminal court and victims being left with damaged vehicles, backlogs of complaints to Kia/Hyundai dealers and the far right agitator licking their chops knowing this is their key to bringing Republicans back in power.

The U.S. Department of Justice determined to end the trend. The DOJ will hold the auto companies and suspects accountable. The DOJ is also trying to establish a better way of policing since incidents involving police killing people of color is rising.
 
In Lansing, the police detained a 12 year old boy taking out the trash. 

A viral video posted to TikTok shows officers mistakenly detaining a young Black man they believed to be a suspect in a string of car thefts in Michigan. The Lansing Police Department has addressed the video and calls it an “unfortunate understanding.”

The video captures the young man in a parking lot near a large dumpster, shortly after a police officer has handcuffed him. Soon after, a man who appears to be his father comes out and defends the young man being detained. 

“They traumatized my son,” the man says in the video.

The father and the person filming can both be heard saying that the young person was simply taking out the trash. 
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Kid taking out trash being harassed by police. Father defending his son. Wrong person.

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In a Facebook statement posted on Friday, Lansing police said the young man, wearing neon shorts and a white shirt, matched the description of a car theft suspect that officers were actively pursuing. The officer who initially detained the young man then was able to “clarify” he was not the suspect, the statement said. 

The video then shows the young Black man being released as his father speaks to police officers. 

Many social media users are also sharing their thoughts regarding the video and the statement from the police. 

Only in America.

Whitney Alese, a popular TikTok user and social justice advocate, said she wasn’t shocked when she first watched the video because of how frequent arrests occur with young Black people. She called the actions by the Lansing Police Department in the video “harmful,” “hurtful” and “shameful.”

She said she believes the police officers were pervasively stereotyping the young man in the video. 

“Too often, Black bodies are harmed while law enforcement hides behind the phrase ‘they fit the description,” Alese said to NBC News. “While law enforcement calls it an ‘unfortunate misunderstanding,’ they don’t know what kind of harm they have done to the psyche of this child, this family or this community.”

The video currently has more than 2.6 million views and multiple comments defending the young man who was detained. 

“Our hope is we can put this unfortunate case of ‘wrong place, wrong time’ behind us and continue to represent the community that we serve,” Lansing police said in a statement.


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