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Black Man Claims Police Were Called on Him as He Was Baby-Sitting 2 White Children
Inside Edition - Yahoo News ^ | Oct 9, 2018 | MAYA CHUNG

Posted on 10/10/2018 3:16:40 PM PDT by ETL

A black baby sitter in Georgia has claimed cops were called on him over the fact that he had two white children in his care.

Corey Lewis said he was in the parking lot of a Cobb County Walmart Sunday when he noticed a white woman watching him and the two children, ages 6 and 10, whom he was baby-sitting.

“She pulls around to the car and she asks, ‘Are the kids alright?’ I said, ‘Why wouldn’t they be?’” Lewis told InsideEdition.com. “She gave a shoulder shrug. She left and then she came back … and said, ‘Can I speak to the little girl and ask her if she knows who you are?’ I said, 'No.'"

He said the unidentified woman then informed him she was going to take down his license plate number.

Lewis said he thought the encounter was over until he went to a nearby gas station and noticed the woman was following him. That’s when he began recording on Facebook Live.

The woman allegedly followed Lewis home and apparently called police. In a video shared of the moment, a police officer questions the children about how they know Lewis.

While Lewis understands the officer was just doing his job, he was emotional about the situation.

“This random lady is trying to assassinate my character based off her assumptions and judgments,” Lewis said.

Lewis, who works with children, was baby-sitting one of the children involved in his after-school program, “Inspired by Lewis” and the child’s sister.

The children’s parents were not pleased when they heard what happened and said Lewis was only questioned because he was driving around two white children.

“B-W-B is the new thing, baby-sitting while black,” David Parker, the children’s father, told WSMV.

Walmart did not respond to InsideEdition.com’s request for comment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: noncrime; nothingburger; notkidnapping; saysomething; seesomething
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To: BenLurkin
Who leaves their kids with a male baby sitter?

Usually internet idiots who don't bother to read articles in their entirety..........

was baby-sitting one of the children involved in his after-school program,

61 posted on 10/10/2018 5:09:29 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (The art of lock picking began during the era of chastity belts.......)
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To: blu

"...Or perhaps this woman’s nose was just too damn long..."


The moment this woman accosted him yet again he should have calmly called police.
He could have advised them he was babysitting and that a strange woman was bothering them for reasons unknown.


62 posted on 10/10/2018 5:11:54 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: ETL

This is why I mind my own business. Unless the guy was obviously shady, or the kids looked under duress, I would have went my merry way. With social media today you will be immediately tar and feathered as a racist worldwide, with little recourse to prove otherwise. And there is always a SJW parent to happily see to it, as we see here with these kids’ father.


63 posted on 10/10/2018 5:12:50 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Blue Jays

You are exactly right.


64 posted on 10/10/2018 5:23:14 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“one of the children involved in his after-school program”

So what?

The after school program wasn’t taking them to Walmart and then to a gas station and then back to their house.


65 posted on 10/10/2018 5:26:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mozzafiato

"...This is why I mind my own business..."


Excellent approach. I concur with you 100% and would do the same as you in this same situation.
There was no reason for this prying and meddlesome woman to approach the babysitter plus the kids.


66 posted on 10/10/2018 5:27:46 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: rovenstinez

There are many viral videos these days of people claiming discrimination in videotaped incidents. Usually, the real story is that someone was just a busybody and race probably wasn’t a factor at all.

However, in this incident, the man makes a valid point. As someone stated above, he should’ve called 911 and reported a stalker.

It’s not about Georgia, though. Here in the Northeast, when out and around with my own children (half-black), sometimes people would question if/why I was with “these kids.” I was amused, but never offended.

However, I once knew a parent (white) who had the police called on him when he was out with his children (half-Filipino). Not sure whether race was a factor, but you never know.

There were a few times I should’ve called the police on people with kids in public. One incident in particular I wonder about to this day.


67 posted on 10/10/2018 5:30:32 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: ETL

60 years ago a black man would have been questioned for being with a white woman.


68 posted on 10/10/2018 5:38:20 PM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: School of Rational Thought

“When you see something shutup? The no snitch culture.”

She saw a man with kids. Call the cops.


69 posted on 10/10/2018 5:40:09 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Rebelbase

I know a white woman who married a black man 60 years ago-——and they did quite well.’

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70 posted on 10/10/2018 5:41:18 PM PDT by Mears
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stranger danger.


71 posted on 10/10/2018 5:44:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: Mears

I bet they have some stories about strangers asking her if she was okay in his presence.


72 posted on 10/10/2018 5:48:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: Mears

"...white woman who married a black man 60 years ago..."


Is that couple you referenced Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein 0bama, Sr.?

73 posted on 10/10/2018 5:55:37 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: TigersEye

“The woman does sound like a Nosey Nellie but perhaps it’s a little over the top to get bent out of shape about it.”

Probably a hypocritical democrat...that’s how they act.


74 posted on 10/10/2018 6:11:03 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

You do know that I meant it’s a little over the top to get bent out of shape about what she did don’t you?


75 posted on 10/10/2018 6:13:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Blue Jays

Nope,it was a couple here in the Boston area-——and I DID say they did quite well,unlike Obama’s folks.

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76 posted on 10/10/2018 6:20:46 PM PDT by Mears
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Nothing I said has anything to do with political correctness.

Normal, polite people don't decide to follow and ask to talk to children being accompanied by another adult. In fact, I would suggest that if some guy came up to a woman and asked her if her kids were OK, and asked to talk to the children, that woman would be very annoyed. She might actually feel endangered, and react accordingly.

But who knows, you sound like the kind of person who likes being stopped by random people and questioned about what you are doing. Or maybe you are the kind of person that feels the need to but into other people's business.

It has nothing to do with "virtue signaling". Ask anyone who has had to deal with the situation faced by the man with two kids who did not look like him.

77 posted on 10/10/2018 6:30:40 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

“It has nothing to do with “virtue signaling”. Ask anyone who has had to deal with the situation faced by the man with two kids who did not look like him.”

My wife is Japanese. I am Caucasian. You can see that in our children. Every now and again I see somebody checking us out, especially if I am somewhere with my adolescent daughter.

Nobody has ever called the police, perhaps because I’m so banged up that it’s obvious: if she couldn’t outrun me, she could probably kick my butt. Not a plausible crime scenario.


78 posted on 10/10/2018 6:46:53 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: StolarStorm

The lady may have became increasingly concerned if/when
she saw the kids acting nervous, not knowing or realizing that it was her actions that led to it.


79 posted on 10/10/2018 7:00:58 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: VanDeKoik

“When you see something shutup? The no snitch culture.”

She saw a man with kids. Call the cops.

Some people are more aware than others.


80 posted on 10/11/2018 4:46:05 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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