Posted on 08/16/2019 1:48:26 AM PDT by Cronos
Royal Oak Police stopped a 20-year-old black man because a white woman called police saying he 'looked suspiciously' at her Tuesday, a video posted to Facebook shows.
According to a Facebook live stream (embedded below) shot by Kimiko Adolph, Devin Myers was stopped by police as he was walking down 4th Street Tuesday evening because a woman called police on him for looking at her. Adolph and Myers both said in the video that she called because he 'looked suspiciously' at her.
Adolph tagged Myers but also said later in the video that she doesn't know him and isn't even from the area.
Myers has his arms crossed in front of his chest through most of the time that he's in the video. He's calm the entire time and even apologizes to the patrol officers who stopped him "for wasting your guys' time".
The video starts after the officers had stopped him but both Adolph and Myers reference a woman in a white car parked in front of the CVS across the street as being the woman who called the police. Both also say they're waiting for a police supervisor to arrive.
Supervisors arrived about 4 minutes into the video and Myers explains to them that they were called because he "looked suspicious".
Along with Adolph and Myers is the owner of the Inn Cafe who is advocating on Myers' behalf.
...the Inn Season Cafe has not posted publicly about the incident but responded to a comment praising their actions saying "we have been fighting for love and compassion for 38 years and we have no intention of stopping anytime soon."
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the woman who called the cops - she was flat out wrong. She should be sued by the young man.
Kudos to the (white) restaurant owner who came out saying the 20 year man did nothing wrong
the ONLY issue here is that the cops actually responded and stopped the guy. The first person, and more than likely the only person, they should have talked to is the woman. I would have done a report so the media could get a hold of it and put her name out there for all the world to know. What a beotch...
Correct. In my opinion
1. the cops were doing their job of responding to a call - it COULD have been serious
2. they were polite
3. but it was stressful for the young man - being stopped and surrounded by cops is a reason to fear
4. the woman should have been asked why she called.
I’d like to reserve judgement on the woman, but since the man did nothing, this woman put the cops and the man in a bad spot - that is not nice on her part
A foreshadowing of RED FLAG laws. Get used to it. Be sure you have your papers with you when you’re rousted.
Get people who look suspicious. In this case, get them if they just "look at you suspiciously".
Reminds me of an incident years ago when I lived in a townhouse complex in Arizona. Streets were private and narrow.
Shortly after arriving home one day, a police officer shows up at my front gate.
He says a lady in the complex said I almost ran into her car with my truck when I entered the complex.
I asked him, "Well, did I hit the woman's car or not?"
He said no but she said you came close.
So I asked, "So how do you know it wasn't this woman who "almost" hit me and not the other way around? You're out here because of something that almost happened but didn't?"
He replied yes, to which I said good bye to the policeman for wasting my time.
This kind of behavior is a slippery slope for people who have done nothing wrong. Who decides who is "suspicious" or who "almost did something but didn't"?
― Jesse Jackson
>>they were called because he “looked suspicious”.
looked suspicious and looked suspiciously at her are two different things.
Has it been established that she called because he was black or because she thought she was being observed/stalked by a man?
Feminazis say the male gaze is sexual harassment, and so is man-spreading. Men are supposed to put blinders on, look down, and defer their eyes when a womyn walks past.
And don’t hold doors open for strange women, that’s sexist.
Nothing has been established beyond that a woman called the cops on a guy who was on the opposite side of the street and that guy was vouched for by the restaurant owner and the cops didn’t charge him with anything.
One day many years ago I head a store door open for a young woman I didn’t know. She started to give me flak about men presuming women couldn’t do things for herself, so I pointedly shut the glass door in her face (no, I didn’t actually hit her with it), turned around, and left.
I say “Red Flag” him. See how the idea works it way through the court system.
Agreed. The idea that any of us can get the cops to stop anyone on the street we feel like having them stop is ridiculous. The woman was the issue.
He was guilty of no offense and I’m surprised that officers arrived with any sense of speed. the best thing to do in such a case is to mediate the two parties and send the woman safely on her (confused) way.
This was a set-up. Who was the woman in the car? Did she really call? If so, how did the two black people know? Why did they call for a supervisor if they could have easily go after telling the police that he was just going to the restaurant to get something to eat? This whole event stinks as a false “hate crime.”
He had little beady eyes spaced too close together.
The only reason this is in the news is that it has “black man” and “white woman.” If the races were not like that, no one would have ever heard about it. The underlying message is that it is bias and hatred for the black man.
We don’t know what the idiot woman was thinking, but no one can “look suspicious.” “Look suspicious” is about the person doing the judging, not the person suspected of doing something wrong.
The wrong done here is calling the cops over some hysterical woman’s sexual fantasy projected on to a man who was doing nothing wrong. Any man is subject to this at any time, by any woman. “The woman never lies” and “the man is always guilty.”
What did the woman look like? Maybe she had an appearance that could have caused any number of men to stare at her.
We don’t know enough information about what actually happened. Obviously, the woman who called the cops felt that the man posed some sort of risk. As we should never trust the media, I think we should withhold judgment on this fairly Trivial event. The police obviously have to respond to the scene when they get a call. If they had not responded, and a crime had occurred, the media would be blasting the cops for not taking action.
I think its in the news because someone was able to film it.
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