Posted on 02/12/2023 11:22:56 AM PST by grundle
Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@lonzogambino/video/7197700777077460267
Alonzo Harmon, a Black man who works as an HVAC technician in Golden Valley, Minnesota, is outraged after his client called the police on him, sobbed hysterically while speaking with the operator and claimed that he’s threatening her. Harmon recorded the woman as she was crying on the phone, then posted the video on TikTok.
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Standing outside the garage as the woman was calling 911, Harmon listened to her claims and struggled to believe what was happening to him.
“He says I’m rude, and he just threatened me right now,” the woman said on her call. ”
While he continues to record the video, Harmon asks the woman to tell him what threat he made. But she ignores his question and proceeds to talk on the phone.
“Please, please, please! I’m so scared right now!” the woman yells on the call. “I’m shaking right now! Please, please! …I’m so scared!”
Harmon chuckled briefly as he remained in disbelief.
“I’ve never in my life had to deal with no bullshit like this,” he said before walking away from the garage.
According to The Daily Beast, a police spokesperson said officers responded to the call and “spoke with the gentleman recording the video.”
“He left with no further investigation taking place involving the incident that was called in,” the spokesperson said according to The Daily Beast.
Harmon, who went to the client’s home to perform an air-duct cleaning, said the woman was rude to him from the moment he got there.
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Amazing that many, here, will make a determination after reading one article and one side of the story.
Of course there is a problem with crazy old ladies calling the police and some of them may even be racist. You want to imprison them. They are pain in the neck kooks. The police behaved properly why don’t you celebrate that.
If you think that you are going to eliminate stupid citizens annoying the police you are dreaming.
Who said anything about imprisoning anybody? Not me. All I’m doing is acknowledging that racist dumb $%!#s exist this country and we should try to make less of them.
As for the cops, I don’t celebrate minimum acceptable behavior. Hurray the cops managed to not kill an unarmed man! Yeah, just not into it.
Maybe conservatives should recognize that society is full of all kinds of eccentric people and that mixing them with the police and throwing people in psychiatric wards is not a good result.
No I don’t think a woman should be placed in the psychiatric ward for 2 weeks because she apparently annoyed a workman and called the police on what sounds like a nothing situation.
Did it ever occur to you that conservatives will be placed in psychiatric wards when they call the police on a legitimate complaint?
You sound like a racist jerk to me. The police in the story didn’t do a d*** thing and they did nothing you could complain about. Yet you were talking about them showing up and shooting unarmed people. Where the h*** did you get that from? And where in the story did it say that the woman was racist? Do you know that crazy old people bother white people as much as they bother anybody else? No I guess not because you have a chip on your shoulder.
I think service companies need to consider a policy that their workers will not enter into the home if a woman is there alone unless her consent for and understanding of what is to be done is recorded. This would be for the worker’s protection since crazy has become epidemic among certain females.
I think the woman in question is on a quick slide to dementia.
I got banned from “Next Door”.
Idiot Karen husband wanted to follow NY rules for
Covid in NC.
That stupid site can KMA.
You sound like a guy with reading problems. I didn’t complain about the cops. Cops HAVE showed up and killed unarmed people, including just a couple weeks ago in Memphis. Sorry if being reminded of REALITY bothers you. Where I got it from was looking up an incident with a crazy racist $#%&^ like this one that I remembered, I had forgotten the unarmed black man in the incident wound up dead. But it was a good reminder that chicks like this DO put people’s lives at stakes when they make these calls.
I got no chip on my shoulder, that’s all you buddy. You showed on this thread desperate to write it off, and now you’re so desperate to write it off you need to call people racist. Meanwhile, back in reality, the racist is the chick that called the cops.
When you do service work in homes, over time you learn that a customer can have such reactions to a serviceman for no reason.
The first time I saw it, I was the guy who was sent to solve problems, to smooth over and reassure customers, a young field super for that reason, but one time I went in and did a normal, simple problem-solving for another tech and left feeling like I had reassured and retained the customer, when I got back to the office the dispatcher (owner’s wife) told me the customer had called and said to never send me back, with all kinds of reasons that never happened (attitude, didn’t know what I was doing, various negatives), being shocked, the owner’s wife explained this happens and there is nothing you can do about it.
Over time I learned that this happens and there are even times when you walk in to do a job and the customer creeps you out so much that you have to make an excuse to leave the house and then send the customer back to the phone book, as an owner I even sometimes would pass on a customer during their first telephone call.
It isn’t unheard of for an experienced dispatcher to warn the tech to be careful going to a house and to leave if the lady gets too weird.
If she felt so threatened, why didn’t she go inside and lock the door before calling police? Instead, she called the police right in front of him while he recorded it. Did I miss something?
Years ago, a friend of mine asked me to help one of his customers (we worked for the same company but he had clients in the building I worked in).
I didn’t have much going on so told him I would. Her computer kept dropping off the network, so I got to the point where I connected her computer in another cube & had to take it apart & start swapping out components trying to find the issue.
She came over & saw her computer in pieces and said something to the effect as wishing they had sent someone over who knew what they were doing. I looked at her and told her she was 100% right and got up & left. Called my co-worker and told him her computer was in pieces in a cube.
Ain’t it great when someone that has absolutely no idea what your doing ignorantly criticizes your work?
I had similar experiences helping folks in my dept with IT crap. When it happened to me I did what you did......walked off.....and it was a cold day before they got my assistance again.
I’m guessing she is a white liberal. It is MN after all.
Yeah....well I'm not betting my life on the common sense of today's class of cops. And I'm white.
If you speak coherently you will have a “language barrier” with my sister in law. A loon to begin with, she is now suffering from dementia due to decades of alcohol and Xanax abuse.
Did she say something racist?
Did it occur to you this story is promoted as part of an agenda?
I’ll go with the the black workman’s quote to the effect he never had to deal with bs this bad.
IOW a very rare occurrence.
Yes.
It happened, why it’s supposedly “promoted” means nothing.
Good for him.
It isn’t a rare occurrence. Ask some black people you know well enough to get honest answers from how often they get followed in the store.
Face it, you came on hear demanding to not be told the story is EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. You’re wrong. You’re in denial. And frankly you’re kinda pathetic.
Have a great life. Take the last word.
Did she say anything racist? That’s a simple question. Let’s start with that and you can prove to me that she is racist.
A white skin person giving a black skin person a hard time is NOT proof of racism. I bet you don’t agree with that.
Get followed in a store? Have you seen all the stores in cities and elsewhere that had to close their doors because shoplifters robbed them blind?
I’ve spoken with ex store managers who told me they were losing $10,000 a week.
How about the stores openly looted and security can do nothing as they’re robbed?
But they should go out of business because they don’t want to offend somebody?
It’s their store and their jobs on the line.
Tell me, racist, did this story have one single thing to do with shopping in a store?
I remember that case of John Crawford. Not only was Crawford killed, but a woman with children died of a heart attack when she saw the police shoot Crawford.
That case happened around the time Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police for playing with a toy gun.
All kinds of people, including white kids, either unarmed or holding toy guns, are shot and killed by police.
What I hate are the double standards on both sides. The Left shrugs it off when it happens to someone who's white, and many people on the Right shrug it off when it happens to someone who isn't.
Yeah. Nobody should be shrugging it off. But everybody has their agenda. Mine is “hey can we kill fewer unarmed people?” Nobody seems to like it.
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