Posted on 05/28/2020 7:16:46 AM PDT by zeestephen
A white Minneapolis venture capitalist's office lease was terminated after a viral video showed him questioning black entrepreneurs using the gym in a building of which they were all tenants...
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My instincts say events like this - involving Black entrepreneurs and Black birdwatchers in Central Park - are premeditated entrapment.
Also - here in Washington state, and in dozens of other states, fitness centers in apartments, hotels, and commercial buildings have been locked down because of COVID-19.
Is that not the case in Minneapolis?
A 911 call to say someone was harassing you and you were being coerced into a dim area of the park is not a setup.
Asking if people are to be in a shared room should be fine.
The black birdwatcher was luring off-leash dogs with dog treats. He was being a jerk, the woman was a crazy likely racist worse jerk. But let’s face it, is an off-leash cocker spaniel that big a deal, for him to have been the jerk he was to get the ball rolling?
Isn't that the point? The white guy was snitching on some guys who happened to be black using the gym which was supposed to be locked. The snitching is the problem, notthing to do with race.
“All these alleged white “racist” acts being recorded on viral videos is beyond coincidence.”
Not really.
There are millions of cellphones out there and with easy ability to upload video.
It’s like saying all of those Russian car crash compilations and Karen freak-outs are all “beyond coincidence” because there are so many of them, and that they all must be “set-ups”.
the government are hypocrites who don’t believe in the virus as a threat.
Certain people are being punished for asking questions. The punishment is not being leveled by the government.
Should be scary to everyone. I hope he sues.
If the dog was leashed (as required by the rules of the park) the dog walker wouldn’t have an issue.
Is the guy a jerk? Sure
But if she had a leash on her dog, she wouldn’t have that problem.
She over reacted because she was a karen who believes the rules are for other people and didn’t like the fact that she had to obey them herself.
Those people suck
I don’t blame the black guy for her bad behavior, she had many opportunities to deescalate the situation and she did everything to do the opposite.
Is racism and/or stupidity grounds for terminating a legal contract?
Stop defending a woman who wasn’t following park rules and then put on an act on a 911 call like she was being threatened
My instincts say events like this - involving Black entrepreneurs and Black birdwatchers in Central Park - are premeditated entrapment.
Millions of people with cell phone cams,door bell cams, house/building cams, etc. You will always capture someone acting or saying something really stupid. I don’t think it is a setup, none of these look like setups to me.
This is the new USA. Calling the police when you suspect something is now a hate crime, and you get fired. So now if you call the cops on a muzz or a black, no matter what the justification, you are effectively eliminated.
Now that our minds are less and less on the chinese virus, we are beginning to realize that the country that we are going back to is a very hostile place indeed. It was better to stay holed up at home without hearing about the accelerated loss of freedom and integrity.
They aren’t set ups, but the way the MSM is choosing to amplify them while ignoring other stories (like the guy beating up old people in the nursing home) is definitely deliberate.
“This is the new USA. Calling the police when you suspect something is now a hate crime, and you get fired.”
He was not fired.
All that happened is that his organization lost their lease on the office space.
It is not as if he is jobless, he and his coworkers just do not have a place to work.
It’s just the Democrat party warming up their voters for the presidential election....so to speak.
“He was not fired.”
He was punished for asking a question.
Stupidity in the form of “annoying/harassing other paying customers” is often in shared workspace lease contracts as a terminable offense. “Show me your cards or I’ll call the police” is annoying other people no matter what race - there are *entirely* too many Gladys Kravitz busybody types out there (of all races) sticking their noses into places where it doesn’t belong.
If this was a great concern to this jackass, he should have just gone over to the WeWork staff and voiced his concern there. He’s not a WeWork employee, why the hell was he accosting other people openly engaged in appropriate behavior in a WeWork space?
So much for “See something, say something.” Remember how the neighbors of the San Bernardino jihadi couple saw suspicious activity but were afraid to call the police for fear of appearing racist? They had a point.
It wasn’t even “their” workspace to begin with - they were leasing time in a shared WeWork workspace. For you older people, this is not unlike the guest workspaces in a hotel with the addition of elements not unlike doing work while you drink coffee at a Starbucks.
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