Posted on 08/10/2023 2:31:36 PM PDT by Morgana
A white apartment complex manager has been arrested after shocking video showed her slapping and pouring soda on black children using the facility's pool.
Kim Jennings, 62, of Greensboro, North Carolina was taken into custody by police on August 3 after they were called to the Sedgefield Garden Apartments for reports of an assault.
In the viral video, Jennings is seen spraying soda on Jace Lee-Eury, 11, and hitting him in the face with the bottle just outside of the residents-only pool.
She was charged with two counts of assault on a child under the age of 12. Jace told local media that she had also pulled his little sister's hair during the incident.
The woman said that she was infuriated with the kids who have been there before and do not live in the complex but that she 'should've handled it differently.'
'I had a soda in my hand, and I tossed it on him, and then I popped him. I did, I admit I did, and it was wrong,' Jennings told WFMY.
'When you've done it and you've done it and you've done it and you've asked him not to come back. I just reacted. But, I will say that I'm sorry that I did that' she said.
The video lit up social media over the weekend with hundreds weighing in.
According to police, when they arrived at the apartment complex, they spoke with the two kids and their parents about the assault.
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I’ll bet Crump would cr@p himself if I showed up at his house and used his pool...
When my sons were in high school they were both in the play Fiddler on the Roof. One night they snuck out with the lead in the play and climbed over a fence to swim in a country club pool. They were taken into custody and brought before the desk sergeant. But it turns out that the desk sergeant had played Tevia when he was in high school. They all ended up singing the songs from the show. Then I got the call and they said that they were going to release my older son and his friend but didn’t know whether they could release our younger son who was 15. We said yes as long as they both came straight home. Fun memory.
Notice how the ethnicities are mentioned when it’s white on black but rarely if it’s the other way??
Yep. Got whacked several times by other kids’ moms, dads, teachers, school yard monitors, theater ushers, etc. Always felt a little embarrassed, never ‘assaulted’.
Not the same as this story but a pool invader one. Note his son was in FBI agent, too.
Civil Rights leader and influential columnist and talk show panelist Carl Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot an unarmed teenage trespasser, Ben Smith.
“The interloper was a near-naked teenager who had been skinny-dipping with friends in Rowan’s pool, and the columnist’s weapon was an unregistered, and thus illegal, .22 caliber pistol.”
From People magazine: “When Rowan heard the police arrive, he stepped outside to let them in. It was then, he says, that he was confronted by “a tall man who was smoking something that I absolutely was sure was marijuana.”
Rowan says he repeatedly warned the intruder that he was armed and would shoot.
“My first words were: ‘Freeze! Stay where you are!’ “ says Rowan. “Then I said, ‘I have a gun.’ “ Rowan says the man kept coming and that he finally felt forced to shoot in self-defense. He says he aimed at the intruder’s feet but hit him in the wrist when the man lunged forward.
The intruder, Chevy Chase, Maryland, teenager Benjamin Smith, 18, tells a different story. “I was in my underwear,” he told a radio interviewer. “I just climbed out of the pool. It was pretty innocent. I never spoke with him. He just shot me and closed the door and went back hiding in his house. I mean, I guess I was trespassing. But that’s no reason to shoot a person, is it? For swimming in their pool?”
Rowan was charged for firing a gun that he did not legally own. Rowan was arrested and tried. During the trial, he argued that he had the right to use whatever means necessary to protect himself and his family. He also said the pistol he used was exempt from the District’s handgun prohibition law because it belonged to his older son, a former FBI agent.
He was accused of hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate.
In a 1981 column, he advocated “a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail—period.” In 1985, he called for “A complete and universal federal ban on the sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns (except for authorized police and military personnel).
Rowan was tried but the jury was deadlocked; the judge declared a mistrial and he was never retried.
Crump to the rescue. Now the black kids chance at “justice” aka a payout has just evaporated.
“but NEVER assault a kid”
Take the kid and the dad out to lunch after lunch beat the living hell out of the dad and tell the kid if he comes back to that pool you’re coming back to cut his dad’s head off and feed it to a pit bull.
Problem solved//s//
Too harsh? I saw it in a movie once.
Probably called the police multiple times and they did nothing.
You are correct sir. It’s by design, but we all knew that. 😆😊
Hope Sloop?
When he's defiantly--not accidentally--breaking the law. And she did know him, according to the article, since he was constantly trespassing in her pool. As others have said, if I'd run home complaining that my neighbor had smacked me after I put my sweaty little body into her pool without permission--again--and topped it off by mouthing off at her, in this case probably using obscenities, they would have laughed. And spanked me.
. . . in the early 1960s. There are many things about that time we need to revisit.
OPEN THE POOL TO EVERYONE.
SEE HOW THEY LIKE THAT.
AND REMOVE ALL SODA MACHINES AS EVERYONE WILL START LOOKING TO USING THOSE AS WEAPONS WHEN THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVEE DONE.
Apparently this is a thing, where this certain demographic seeks out private pools, knowing people won’t do anything about it, lest they get labelled as racists.
At least Kim Jennings will be.
It’s not the 60’s anymore.
Should have called the police to speak to the parents....along with the fines for trespassing on private property. No different than going in any property owners pools.
It's still unauthorized use of someone private property...indirectly “theft”.
There's no point in trying to ‘talk’ to parents today - too risky.
Absolutely it is....just like taking advantage of everything else that doesn’t belong to them.
He would shoot you and not a single charge would be filed against him.
Still no excuse to assault a kid.
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