Posted on 07/01/2018 1:30:45 PM PDT by BBell
It's a business that has existed for as long as there have been summer vacations and borrowed lawn mowers: A pint-size entrepreneur offers to endure the rage of a summer sun on a neighbor's behalf, pushing a lawn mower across high grass for a small fee.
Last week, in Maple Heights, Ohio, that entrepreneur was Reggie Fields, a 12-year-old middle schooler who is the owner and mower-in-chief of Mr. Reggie's Lawn Service. His sister and two cousins also provided manual labor in their neighborhood outside Cleveland, working a rake and a broom to corral clippings.
That's what they told Lucille Holt-Colden, 51, who encountered them at a Dollar Tree where they were purchasing a gas canister and some lawn bags on June 23. Holt-Colden thought it was a good investment. Her grass was growing taller, and her $20 would be used to keep this particular group of black youths off the street and out of trouble.
She was mostly right.
As Reggie and his troupe were finishing up her yard, a Maple Heights Police SUV rolled up in front of Holt-Colden's house.
When she saw the police through the window, she was surprised. Then, when she learned what had happened, she was outraged - and reached for her cellphone to share it with the world.
"My neighbors that stay in that house right there," she said, swiveling the phone as it recorded her on video. "So I guess I have a line where part of it is not my yard. They called the police to tell the police that the kids was cutting their grass. Who does that? Who does that?"
She captioned the video: "This is RIDICULOUS!!!" a phrase she repeated several times during an interview with The Washington Post, along with "Who does this?"
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Article with an inciting headline to further stir up people in an area known to already have a large population of minorities who need something to divert their attention from their real problems so they can blame someone else.
A pint-size entrepreneur offers to endure the rage
Just a defenseless baby being victimized by racists.
sister and two cousins also provided manual labor
family victimized as well.
Lucille Holt-Colden
A sympathetic trying to do the right thing is inadvertently victimized.
keep this particular group of black youths off the street
Insinuating there is an underlying problem that needs to be addressed with more money.
She was mostly right.
lead up to the damning.
As Reggie and his troupe were finishing up her yard, a Maple Heights Police SUV rolled up in front of Holt-Colden's house.
The police.
she was outraged - and reached for her cellphone to share it with the world.
Create outrage
21st century phenomenon known as #LivingWhileBlack
Shameless plug for an unheard of outrage site for the modern race victims.
African Americans who were engaged in laughably innocuous activities
Create a phenomenon by tying in unrelated events.
Christianity while watching the ocean
Peace and religion tied in
the gym, shopping for underwear, waiting for the school bus and couponing
It's everywhere
8-year-old selling cold water to passersby
Trying to oppress to keep them down
8-year-old,6-year-old
Even attacking the kids.
"If the kids were white,"
An assumption to make you nod your head in agreement.
9-year-old cousin was frozen with fear
Inherent fear of police.
not cited or stopped by the police
Innocent victim did not do anything.
9-year-old killed in the crossfire
Tying in something completely unrelated to somehow blame racism???
idle time of thousands of students
2nd plea for money
little girl sitting in her mother's car
piling on with unrelated things to somehow blame racism or a need for more money?
interaction with the police would be discouraging.
police being used by the institutionalized racists.
donated more than $8,600
more money it will fix everything. Somehow.
aren't resting on that publicity-fueled windfall
can't keep us down
fliers on orange paper, Schedule an appointment
We will persevere and overcome.
miss anything?
It was a BLACK woman who called the police!
What’s wrong with you? Working a summer job is cool black or white.
Mocking work is retarded.
So this racist outrage is completely manufactured?
Wow. Are those her words or are those Cleve's (if that's his REAL name) thoughts being projected onto her?
"how can you work a summer job when you are constantly being racially harassed".
If anyone would watch the video, you can see where two black women are in their driveway sweeping the grass. They are the ones who called the police.
Anyhow...the kid now has almost $32,000 in his Go Fund Me account!
Watch the video!
according to the tribune article "the neighbor who called the police on Reggie is white"
Do you have a link to something that says they were black? if you do please post it.
“...It was a BLACK woman who called the police!...”
Now that’s a different story....
She called the police to stop these kids from working...
She don’t want them to get used to EARNING money....
She says they will never get their welfare or EBT cards if they get into the habit of really working for money....
she should have just gone outside and spoke to the boy. Calling the police for every little thing is stoopid, IMHO.
So the cops went on their way and that was that. So what’s the big deal? Oh wacism (eyeroll)
I wonder how many stories of black on white crime get ignored to make space for crapola like this.
Which is worse, getting rolled up on by cops who just leave, or getting robbed or carjacked? It’s not even close.
Once I was reading the police reports in my local paper——and a mother called 911——because her 12 year old refused to go to school.
(Sigh!)
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The video:
Posted by Lucille Holt
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Lucille Holt is the one who hired the kids. She’s taking the video. She shows her lawn, where she’s standing, and then pans to her neighbors sweeping their driveway. They are the ones who called the police.
What’s sad is that the kids made an honest mistake. The lawn is not divided between the houses, so the kid kept going.
I figured the neighborhood was mostly made up of Blacks. But the race pimps never miss an opportunity to place their hand.
The same sort of thing has happened to White kids too.
At least it wasn’t a lemonade stand.
“Do you have a link to something that says they were black? if you do please post it.”
The racist media won’t tell you, but it’s obvious in the video.
how big WAS the kid, lol? I’d would have picked my girl up and dumped her in homeroom!!!
So not only did the kid mow the neighbors grass, but he forgot to blow the grass off the neighbor’s driveway too?
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