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[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\"." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family)." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb..." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!" ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!", ">\n\nWhoever called the cops on a 9 year old girl is a racist piece of shit." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!", ">\n\nWhoever called the cops on a 9 year old girl is a racist piece of shit.", ">\n\nSome people are just fking reprehensible aholes. Calling the police on a nine year old child who wasn’t harming anyone is just ridiculous.\nIt’s great to see that someone stepped up to the plate and recognized her for her efforts to help her neighborhood and society. Far more than the creep who called the police on her." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!", ">\n\nWhoever called the cops on a 9 year old girl is a racist piece of shit.", ">\n\nSome people are just fking reprehensible aholes. Calling the police on a nine year old child who wasn’t harming anyone is just ridiculous.\nIt’s great to see that someone stepped up to the plate and recognized her for her efforts to help her neighborhood and society. Far more than the creep who called the police on her.", ">\n\nImagine seeing someone spraying something at trees and being so scared you call the police. Don't go out to get a better look, don't ask them what they're doing, don't ask them to stop; you go straight to the police, as if you're watching them burn down trees in real time. Like even on its face, that's absurd \nI really doubt that was what was really going on (it's not new for white neighbors to call the police on their black neighbors to try and harass them so much they leave the neighborhood; and I doubt the man really mistook his neighbor's 9 year old daughter to be a grown woman), but I'm just trying to imagine in what world I could possibly see someone do that and feel a burning desire to call the police." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!", ">\n\nWhoever called the cops on a 9 year old girl is a racist piece of shit.", ">\n\nSome people are just fking reprehensible aholes. Calling the police on a nine year old child who wasn’t harming anyone is just ridiculous.\nIt’s great to see that someone stepped up to the plate and recognized her for her efforts to help her neighborhood and society. Far more than the creep who called the police on her.", ">\n\nImagine seeing someone spraying something at trees and being so scared you call the police. Don't go out to get a better look, don't ask them what they're doing, don't ask them to stop; you go straight to the police, as if you're watching them burn down trees in real time. Like even on its face, that's absurd \nI really doubt that was what was really going on (it's not new for white neighbors to call the police on their black neighbors to try and harass them so much they leave the neighborhood; and I doubt the man really mistook his neighbor's 9 year old daughter to be a grown woman), but I'm just trying to imagine in what world I could possibly see someone do that and feel a burning desire to call the police.", ">\n\n9 years old = \"little black woman\" I guess." ]

[ "I like this mom. \n“This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.”", ">\n\nThanks for highlighting this.", ">\n\nIts an important part to remember.", ">\n\nWhat I don't understand is the inability to communicate\nA neighbor called the police on her “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nI really don't understand the tendency to call the police, particularly about inane shite. If you have an issue with what someone is doing you go up to them and talk to them, you don't demand civic authorities deploy law enforcement officers. I saw a case of someone being annoyed with how loud a neighbour was playing games with his girlfriend so called the police. The video game player ended up getting killed.", ">\n\nThat neighbor wasn’t scared. And he wasn’t going to go out to talk to her because figuring out what she was doing was never his intention. It is obvious by his description of her, “there’s a little black woman with a hood on”, spraying stuff…”, that he intended for the police to be in the mindset of confronting a grown black woman, doing stuff to sidewalks and people’s property. Let me ask you, how many times have you mistaken a 9 year old for a woman? I mean, there are some outliers, for sure, but looking at the pictures of her and I found video from the officer’s body cam, and there’s no way that he didn’t know she was a child. A grown man wanted to make police believe a black woman was vandalizing property and then sic them on a 9 year old girl. Was he hoping the police would be rough with her and scare her into not leaving her house? Was he hoping that they’d arrest her? Shoot her? What outcome could he have been hoping for by involving police in that manner. He didn’t say, “there’s a child spraying stuff all over trees and sidewalks”, maybe he knew that was a ridiculous thing to call about so he said it was a woman. Either way, dude’s a racist piece of shit. And I’m so glad the responding officer immediately recognized what was going on and made sure the girl knew she wasn’t in trouble. It could have gone a lot worse.", ">\n\nYes, who thinks a 9 year old is a \"woman\"? Unless the guy is a pedofile, it's a real stretch to confuse somebody 9 years old with an adult.", ">\n\nI had literally just read an article or study, I don’t remember that said during a study, white people found black girls less innocent, more responsible for their actions and less deserving of help than white girls. They literally see little black girls as “women” at a younger age, at least when it comes to perceived negative behaviors.", ">\n\nThat study is mentioned in the article. Boys of color are seen similarly.", ">\n\nOh good lord. The joys of having a toddler that has suddenly become allergic to sleep. My brain is officially mush.", ">\n\nYou look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called?", ">\n\nThis is an easy question to answer. The caller was a racist Karen.", ">\n\nThat's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again", ">\n\nYou mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nRACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe?", ">\n\nOh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE", ">\n\nDid someone say RACIST KAREN NJ POLITICIAN GORDON LAWSHE?", ">\n\nWhy TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!?", ">\n\nSomeone who calls her a Black \"woman\" to dispatch.", ">\n\n\nThere’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\n\nNothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.\n\"She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8.\"", ">\n\nYou can never be too careful around the mini black folks.", ">\n\nI genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.\nIn fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.\nEdit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse.", ">\n\nI read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting", ">\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\nWho the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??\nI wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again.", ">\n\n\nThe attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.\n\nI'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid.", ">\n\nBlack people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist.", ">\n\nIf he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now", ">\n\nFFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist.", ">\n\nTo call her a little black woman is wild", ">\n\nThe perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time", ">\n\nI’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why.", ">\n\nYou can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!\nRacism.", ">\n\nNot just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting.", ">\n\n\"relations with a young woman\"\nRaped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.\nI'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex.", ">\n\nFor real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting.", ">\n\n...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though\nHow fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you? You could have just asked her what she was doing.", ">\n\nHe called for a gun cause he wanted them dead", ">\n\nthis. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing", ">\n\nShe's just spraying there...MENACINGLY", ">\n\nThe body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like \"what's in your hand!?\" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says \"it's a trash grabber!!\"", ">\n\nTerrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the \"weapon\", the \"object\", etc. and he keeps repeating, \"It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!\"\nThen when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one \"brave\" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.\nA dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home.", ">\n\nYes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say \"I live here\" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service.", ">\n\nWhy call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?\nPeople are just stupid, hateful, assholes.", ">\n\nThat little black woman might have had a gun!", ">\n\nA 9 year old girl! Jesus fucking christ!\nI think it's telling too that the caller remarked that she was a \"little black woman\" They'll not even let black people be children, let alone given the dignity of being a fucking human being.", ">\n\nNot for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!?", ">\n\nAnd yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nLet's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology.", ">\n\nHis racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die.", ">\n\nProbably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is", ">\n\nSelf aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is.", ">\n\nLittle Black Woman is quite an odd combination of words.. makes me feel like they went out of their way to not acknowledge she’s a child.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what that racist piece of shit did", ">\n\nImagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible.", ">\n\nAs a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!\nI’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face.", ">\n\nGrowing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc.", ">\n\nI remember the day my coworker got embarrassed by the police showing up to our office. He is a mechanical engineer like myself and an ex football player in college - big guy. They came in and arrested him for armed robbery, when this guy was just a big teddy bear. He was black and looked absolutely nothing like the guy who committed the crime - probably 80 lbs lighter, 10 shades darker, and certainly didn't have glasses like my coworker. \nHe was jailed for weeks until they figured it out. He's no longer with our company, and he didn't really talk about it. I'll never know what that's like. This bullshit needs to stop. I hope he got a big payout from the city.", ">\n\nThey don't even bother to try. It's terrorism.", ">\n\n\nBobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her \n\nWhat does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger.", ">\n\nThe guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a \"tiny black young lady\"", ">\n\nIIRC, it was \"Little Black Woman\".", ">\n\nOf course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.", ">\n\nExactly. That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.", ">\n\nHe definitely knew her he just hoping they’d do what cops do and show up guns blazing to protect his neighborhood from the scary Black people", ">\n\nI believe that. He looks like he might be part of that generation that didn't want blacks in \"his\" neighborhood.", ">\n\nThat little girl is going to do amazing things. You can just tell.", ">\n\nShe’s looking to eradicate lantern flies? She is literally my hero then, those bugs are the worst.", ">\n\nRight?!? You can just look at her and tell she’s a little genius. There’s nothing more adorable than nerdy kids lol", ">\n\n“Wrongly reported” is such an asshole way to say “Reported by racist”.", ">\n\nAs a guy living in New Jersey, she was doing a service trying to kill those goddamn lantern flies. Invasive bastards (also fuck that person who called the cops on her)", ">\n\n\n“I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nUgh. This says so much about the person who \"reported\" her. The amount you can infer from that one quote really shouldn't be THAT obvious.", ">\n\nPOS said there's a tiny black woman spraying something on the trees I'm scared. Didn't call her a child. Thought he saw a fucking black leprechaun or something lmao", ">\n\nGuy is a real piece of shit", ">\n\n\"Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white. The defense rests your honor.\"", ">\n\nFun fact: in the book, it was a juror, not Jake, who gave that speech (during deliberations) and convinced the remaining holdouts to change their votes.", ">\n\nBy including the word “black” in the neighbors complaint, I feel they intentionally wanted the police to get there faster and to already judge the girl as guilty before arriving.", ">\n\nAnd “woman”. Little Black “woman”. If you’re close enough to see she’s little, you’re close enough to see that she’s a fucking CHILD.", ">\n\nI’m sure of it. They knew if they said “child” that the police wouldn’t take them seriously. They wanted the police to think a crazy black woman was spraying poison around the neighborhood.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nA little black woman? Do you mean a child Ma’am? A young child?", ">\n\nNo I mean a modified M1A1 abrams main battle tank with a prototype anti drone defence mechanism, mobile cyber warfare suite and revolutionary railgun. \nUh", ">\n\nI'm a big brown woman and I was outside last year spraying those godawful bugs. I'm lucky there wasn't a scared white person there to see me.\nI've never heard of the term adultification but I know for many years black people have been perceived as hypersexual and sexually manipulative and aggressive. And when a young black teenage girl goes missing, it's typically assumed it was because of her lifestyle and it's something she did. As if she couldn't be the victim of a predator, like it's assumed with white girls. The girl's homelife and family is also extremely scrutinized, assuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child. It also doesn't help that we stereotype black women and men as always tough, aggressive, angry, confrontational, able to withstand anything, incapable of breaking down. There's no vulnerability so when bad things happen, we are supposed to suck it up, take the hits, and not show any emotions unless it's anger. Yet at the same time stay quiet.\nKudos to Yale for recognizing what she was doing was benefitting the environment and her community, and that Mr. Lawrence gets engulfed by bugs.", ">\n\n\nassuming her mother (because it's usually always the mother) is a bad and neglectful parent whose behavior rubs off on the child\n\nCause all our dads abandoned us, amirite? /s\nAbsolutely repulsive behavior on the part of the neighbor who called the police on her. But even if it was just for good publicity, so happy Yale stepped in to show this girl that she shouldn't be afraid to investigate and live her life just because this happened to her. \"Fuck that neighbor, you're great and should continue being great\" is about the best message she could have gotten from this", ">\n\nThere’s research showing that white people think Black children are older and “less innocent” than they actually are: article.", ">\n\nAdultification. So fucked up.\nLike the video I saw once with a cop screaming at a little Black girl saying \"you're behaving like a child\" and the girl says \"I AM A CHILD\" Wtf", ">\n\nThe shitty part is that these kids *have* to \"grow up\" because they are literally one nosey-neighbor's phone call away from having police pointing a gun at them.\nI've heard from POC friends that they had very lengthy discussions with their parents regarding racism and the police from a young age, because its more dangerous for them to not have that discussion. Heavy hitting, dark topics like that are sure to make a kid grow up a bit faster.\nThey don't even have the option of behaving like children.", ">\n\nThe caller apparently said and quote, \"theres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants and stuff I dunno but it scares me\".......imagine a world where someone is scared of a little 8 year old girl. They might have just walked out and talked to her like a normal human. What kind of person calls the police on a little girl?", ">\n\n\ntheres a little black girl walking around spraying something on plants\n\nLittle black woman*.", ">\n\n\n”There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n* Calling a 9 year old a “little black woman” is bad faith\n* “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though” is a truly and deeply fucked up sentiment.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nSeriously what the fuck. Scared of a little girl with a spray can! The horror!", ">\n\nI’d be worried if I had a neighbor that could look at my nine year old daughter and describe her as a “woman”. It sounds like the thinking of a closeted pedophile.", ">\n\nThe caller was a Karen/Kyle obviously. Lots of white people dont see black people as humans, and when they see one, even a child they are scared to death.", ">\n\nFYi I am a six foot tall black woman with powerful contralto. And engineering degrees from the best schools.. From my earliest days I have walked carefully not trying to scare the white folk. I had to teach my nephew to do the same.\nDespite my best efforts i am still called intimidating and pushy. \nIt is exhausting. \nI look at white women who get to cry and carryon in public with total amazement at their lack of emotional control. What must it feel like to be free l to scream and cry and fly off the handle when provoked?", ">\n\n\"There's a little black woman spraying trees ...\"\nGIRL. She is a child. Perfect example of adultification of Black girls", ">\n\nIt’s disgusting a little girl would have the police called on her like that. What’s even more scary is the level of fear people have in order to call the police on a 9yo for spraying plants and the sidewalk with a pesticide…how much Fox News does someone have to watch to get like that? What happened to just engaging in a conversation? Ask questions without being offensive or entitled and you may have a friendly exchange of ideas where you learn something.", ">\n\nYale honors Bobbi Wilson, 9, wrongly reported to police for existing", ">\n\nWrongly reported, absolutely, 💯 percent. But absolutely deliberately AF. Racists gonna racist: if you're black and so much as breathe around one of them or if they just want to hurt someone that day, you know they're gonna do it.", ">\n\nIt's a shame the article doesn't outline the cops response when he showed up. He was very calm and immediately noticed his services had been used to try and scare these people. His conversation with the mother was very telling that he understood the caller was the problem.\nI'm all about police reform, but that's a two way street. It does no good when the media ignores the few who get it right.", ">\n\nI think folks like myself would be happier knowing he got a charge for using the cops to scare and possibly harm a child. Also I'm not entirely sure a cop doing his job is newsworthy, but I do understand where you're coming from. People need to see positive interactions because for some folks who doom scroll all day, they will get an unrealistic and sensationalized perspective of what is going on around them. Such as the idea that every cop is out to get them or take advantage of their power. Its some we all need to keep an eye on for our own worldview. \nYou see this happen with folks who watch the news all day (I got one in my family).", ">\n\nImagine seeing a kid looking for bugs and thinking, \"yeah, this requires police action.\"", ">\n\nThe 911 callers name should be put on blast too. There needs to be repercussions for calls to the police just because they see a POC. Especially a fucking child. It’s not like she was brandishing a weapon.", ">\n\nWrongly reported? The piece of shit knew exactly what he was doing.", ">\n\n\"She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam.\" This more than anything should be the result of her hard work. Positive reinforcement.", ">\n\nA reasonable person would have gone out and asked her about it. \nThe main reason would be to check to make sure she wasn't fooling around with potentially toxic chemicals.", ">\n\nNeighbor called police on someone they deemed a “suspicious person”. What about a little 9 yo girl is suspicious and deems calling the police? People are so fucked up", ">\n\noh - pretty sure cause 85%+ demographics are \"white\" in dear, dear Caldwell. & even though there are \"poor people\" there - oh - i'm ever so sure that basically 85% of those \"those people\" aren't", ">\n\nNine years old with a collection in an Ivy League University's museum, that's amazing!\nAny GoFundMe for her future tuition at Yale?", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nWould \"little black girl\" have received a different response? \n\nThe caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi’s mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor’s call put her daughter in lethal peril.\n\nIt's nice the little girl got some warm fuzzies from the university.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\n\nHold up... suddenly she's a \"woman\"? You know what was going on, right? Some \"Karen\" called the cops, embellished, hoping this little girl would get the George Floyd treatment \n😑\nI wish I was her Daddy! 😡🤬", ">\n\nWould it be better to say Yale honors (insert name here) for her efforts in…\nWe see her.", ">\n\nThe caller must be made to feel like a piece of shit for the rest of their life.", ">\n\nThey'll just bask in the feeling of being a victim of liberal cancel culture.\nOnly reason he isn't a headline speaker at CPAC is because he didn't shoot her himself and hoped he could get the police to do it instead.", ">\n\nHe's already a republican politician", ">\n\nWhy did the police even respond to this?\nThe emergency operator probably would not have tasked police in this instance and left it to community policing to investigate later.", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nHe called her an adult. A black one at that. \nI was talking to dispatch for over 10 minutes to convince them to bring a cop over, to have an elderly man off our property because he was holding us hostage when I worked at a repair shop. \n\"He's old. What could he do ?\"\nThis is the South, he's off his meds, he's pissed that we wouldn't replace 8 tires for free because he lied to a guy about payment that worked on his yard which lead the guy to slash all his tires on both vehicles. I was not taking that chance. I finally told dispatch unless you want my coworker to handle it, he will gladly defend us with his gun.\nFound out the next day, old dude had a gun in his car.", ">\n\nA man tried to get into my apartment at 5 am when I was home alone (I’m a woman whose partner works nights, which shouldn’t matter or be relevant to the story but of course it is). I called 911 terrified as he pounded on the door and yelled at me to “fucking open up or I’m going to bust it down, you c&@t!”\nShe heard him yell that on the other end of the phone. \nMy voice was shaking and I was cowering in the furthest corner from that door with a freaked out cat in my arms and the dispatcher goes, \n“So… like… do you want us to send someone or what?” \n…. Fucking what?!?! Did she think I was calling for emotional support? The fucked up thing is I actually felt stupid for calling for a second. If this doesn’t constitute an emergency for them, what would? I guess the knife would have to be sticking out of me (far enough in that it should be able to stand on its own) before they’d maybe think about doing something???\nTurns out he had just gotten out of jail a week or two before after 17 years for being a serial rapist. \nI’ll never forget how apathetic and annoyed the dispatcher was with me, honestly that was more traumatizing than the actual attempted break-in/rape/murder/whatever his intentions were.", ">\n\nYo, WHAT?! \nI'm a smartass and you read how I talked to dispatch. I would've seriously told them, \"If anything happens to me, this will be all on you. If I don't survive ,this recording will get out and you won't have a job anymore. So unless you want work another day ,you will bring someone here, NOW.\"\nI sure as hell would report that shit. I'm sorry you went through that.", ">\n\nThank you for saying so, seriously. Ever since it happened I find myself sometimes questioning whether I was right to call and bother them or whatever but then I’ll check myself and be like what no that’s insane what do you mean you feel bad for bothering them and it’s just nice to see people agree that the whole world seems to be going crazy.", ">\n\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.\"\n\nPeople really are pathetic.", ">\n\nHow stupid/ afraid do you have to be to call the cops on a little girl with a spray bottle?", ">\n\nRight? If she were setting fires I would understand calling 911 because setting fires is obviously dangerous and possibly criminal. This was a complete over reaction", ">\n\n\nBlack and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts\n\nThe fuck is wrong with you Americans", ">\n\nI'm gonna start calling the cops on old white people", ">\n\ncalling the cops on a 9 year old means you attempted to murder a child", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nThis person was supposedly scared of a 9 year old girl…", ">\n\nshe even made her own repellant spray. i adore her. what a cute girl.", ">\n\nDude called the \"Slave catchers\" to remove the black girl from his view of American suburbia, simple as. \nHope he feels like a colossal piece of shit seeing her honoured by fucking Yale of all places.", ">\n\nConservative and racist, name a more iconic duo", ">\n\nYou only named one group though.", ">\n\nImagine how many times this might happen to her before her entire dream of being a scientist might be shattered. I would be terrified to do anything after this. I would be scared. And worse having such a negative experience attached to something I thought was good. This is one of the reasons I never did anything involving door to door things as a kid. This act by Yale is really meaningful and important and I can't thank them enough for standing by her in a big public way.", ">\n\nGood it would have been a shame if her scientific interest was sullied by a Karen. Glad to see her getting recognition.", ">\n\nPeople just need to stop monitoring other people’s behavior. You don’t know what some little girl is doing so you call the cops…?! Fuck you. \nAlso I love the whole: you’re treating little black girls like adults relative to little white girls. No. You’re being racist! Don’t invent a word to describe it. Call it what it is. Racism!", ">\n\nGod I hate nosey, stupid neighbors. \"Scares me, though\" get bent", ">\n\nI love this for this little girl, and I hope it makes the people who called feel very stupid for having done so, but academia’s insistence on inaccessibility to all peoples makes this feel so performative and gross to me.", ">\n\n“there’s a little black woman” … child. she’s a child. you’re calling the police, dialing 911, on a child. bffr", ">\n\nThis racist NJ politician hates his black neighbors. He probably seethes with stinky rage when he sees the little girl bopping around the street doing her bug stuff. He was trying to get her killed is what he was trying to do.", ">\n\nSo despite all their weapons that protect them, they are so afraid of little girls, they call the cops?", ">\n\nMore republican values on display. Racist fuck wads.", ">\n\nReminds me of that one student who built an alarm clock for a project and they thought it was a bomb...", ">\n\n“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”\nWoman. She saw a nine year old girl and called her a woman. She was hoping cops would come in swinging.", ">\n\nSeems like the police handled it about as well as can be expected.", ">\n\nThat \"neighbour\" is a total piece of shit. It says he apologized to the girl's mother so hopefully he actually learned something but for some reason I doubt it. Seriously, who the fuck calls the cops in that situation?", ">\n\nGod. Fucking newspaper couldn’t even use her name.", ">\n\nWhere are all these racists living that cops actually come in less than 4 hours?!", ">\n\nWhoever called the cops on a 9 year old girl is a racist piece of shit.", ">\n\nSome people are just fking reprehensible aholes. Calling the police on a nine year old child who wasn’t harming anyone is just ridiculous.\nIt’s great to see that someone stepped up to the plate and recognized her for her efforts to help her neighborhood and society. Far more than the creep who called the police on her.", ">\n\nImagine seeing someone spraying something at trees and being so scared you call the police. Don't go out to get a better look, don't ask them what they're doing, don't ask them to stop; you go straight to the police, as if you're watching them burn down trees in real time. Like even on its face, that's absurd \nI really doubt that was what was really going on (it's not new for white neighbors to call the police on their black neighbors to try and harass them so much they leave the neighborhood; and I doubt the man really mistook his neighbor's 9 year old daughter to be a grown woman), but I'm just trying to imagine in what world I could possibly see someone do that and feel a burning desire to call the police.", ">\n\n9 years old = \"little black woman\" I guess.", ">\n\nThe headline needs some work. And why do they capitalize Black? \nOutside of that, kudos to Bobbi Wilson. I freaking love that her insect collection is listed as a donation from a scientist. Sad she should ever be suspected of something nefarious when she was trying to put good back into the world." ]