Dozens? hundreds?
In the 1970s I was a white woman that called police because a black man made me very uncomfortable and I still cannot tell you why he made me feel that way. He was polite, in fact almost “too” polite to my coworker and to me. I can tell you when the police questioned him and checked him out it turned out he had a rap sheet for armed robbery, a pistol, and admitted to police he had planned to rob the place when we closed. I never had that feeling about another customer, and I would have called police no matter what color he was- anyone that gave me those vibes was going to get at least checked out by police.
I think it is a “bad person” thing that triggers in your brain and yes it can be wrong, but I tend to think people should pay attention to those warnings. They are not always wrong and may save your life.
I know people call police on other people of all colors so unless there is something showing that it is done to black people more often than it should I am going to believe it is reasons other than color causing the calls. Behavior of the person or instinct of the one that calls- whatever it is, doesn’t have to be racism.
“The common thread in all these stories: white people calling the cops on black people just living their lives.”
Well, when you specifically pick a set of criteria, and then collect stories that meet that criteria, it is not a surprise when your chosen criteria is a “common thread”
What I want to know is — how many times are the police called to investigate white people? If a white person made a video about getting “harassed” by police because some other white person called the cops on them, nobody would care.
My Lord, these people are deranged.
If you just read their examples - like the two black men in a Starbucks who were just waiting for a friend - it is like they live in an offended-tinged world.
The story of the black guy with a white girlfriend in his car getting asked if she was okay by a security guard at a gate, for instance. Details are missing. Was she dressed up and he dressed like a banger? Was she maybe crying? Had they been arguing and her body language was negative? All the stuff that would have led a security guard to inquire about her well being was missing from the story. Now maybe, just maybe, it was a racist pig of a security guard that just hated seeing black men with white women, but I really doubt it.