So they call the cops on you for mowing while black, too? Geez, just tell the kid “I have someone take care of that for me, sorry” and let it go at that.
You don’t call the cops on someone in America unless you’re hoping they make the evening news. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.
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Err… /s?
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When did we go from “the ones not being shitty cops are enabling the ones who are and are therefore bad” to “literally every cop is itching to shoot unarmed harmless ten year olds”
It’s not that every cop is innately murderous, it’s that the institution itself presents violence as it’s main tool and protects its use against scrutiny.
Put another way: to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I think it comes from the perception that in order to survive in a corrupt organisation, one must be willing to be complicit in corruption.
Therefore, they hypothesis is that the “good cops” were weeded out long ago.
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It’s called uplifting news. You have to be more discreet when posting. Remember the glass is 1/4 full here. Silver lining people 🫠
I mean I think it’s just your standard feel good story that just happens to involve the police. In general you are probably safest assuming every cop is a bad cap for the reasons you listed, but sometimes the good humans in that field do something noteworthy.
Albeit the good is giving a kid some money and the bad is gross abuse of our civil rights and murdering civilians.
Next level wokeism bruh.
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Didn’t Uplifting News used to have a no negative comments rule?
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It’s so nice that they didn’t shoot the kid!
It’s hard for me to understand someone who would call the police on a kid mowing yards. You hear all these complaints from the older generation about kids these days not knowing the value of hard work or being too “soft” because they spend all their time in front of a screen. This is an example of a young person going out and offering useful manual labor to their neighbors in order to earn money for something they want. It’s exactly how kids learn the value of hard work. Who could have a problem with this? I’m glad the police were willing to help him out, but I feel like at least one of his neighbors needs a slap to the face.
Yeah I just can’t qwhite put my finger on it.
Yeah I hear that a lot in my own town.
“Kids these days stay inside too much” kids go outside and they’re calling the cops. Gee wonder why the kids don’t go outside anymore.
You know, nothing summed it up quite like the whole Pokemon Go craze. It was wild, people of all ages were out like it was a festival every day. I’ve never seen main street so active before or since, and the parks too. That was like the best four weeks, perhaps a feeling I haven’t had since being a kid on summer vacation, it really felt like summer meant something again.
And oh my god the old folks were livid. At kids playing. In the park. There are people in the city park, there aren’t supposed to be people there, it’s supposed to be empty and dilapidated.
Man it’s wild to me how hard people hate on kids having areas to play. I live near an empty lot that used to be a pool and the city wanted to turn it into a skate park. There’s some old grump with a homemade sign slung over their fence with “WE DON’T WANT A SKATE PARK” scrawled on it like?? Come on, give the local kids a safe place to play that isn’t a parking lot. I’m for it and I don’t even have kids!
Depending on how close the fence was to the property line, that sign might be litter. Just sayin’
He’s a black kid. The people doing this don’t want black kids out, they want them inside cells or caskets.
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I can’t understand white someone would do it either.
Can’t really grasp (edit: NOT grapes!) it either, have a theory but I hate being so cynical.
It’s hard not to be cynical these days. The article didn’t specify what neighborhood this took place in, but I’m sure this was a case of a kid who didn’t “look right” for the neighborhood.
Not sure if you noticed but the kid is black
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Yeah, when they say that they mean white kids.
They don’t want blacks anywhere near their neighbourhood.
Who could have a problem with this?
well you see, according to the pictures in the article the kid is Black.
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Honestly, just racism. I know a group of people who were knocking on doors advertising a community event and the cops were called on the one black dude they had with them. He always has a big smile on him and doesn’t look threatening at all, so I find it hard to believe that it’s not just racism.
I find it hard to believe the police turned up.
“Hello police, there is a kid mowing gardens.” Isn’t exactly a priority response call.
There are some astonishingly sleepy towns in the world.
I doubt the neighbor that called said they were just mowing lawns. More likely along the lines of “suspicious black person has been walking around peoples houses” as they conveniently leave out that they are walking behind a lawn mower.
I can understand not wanting to pay a kid for lawn work, I’ve been broke before. Just say no thank you and go on with life.
That being said, we hire kids in our neighborhood all the time.
We have two girls (9 and 6, I think, never met them, grandma drives and “supervises”) who come pick up dog poop, and we’ve had a kid for a couple years who turned mowing yards in the summer into an LLC and he just hired his first employee to help out with client growth.
I know if he wasn’t a white blonde kid who looks halway decent (long hair, which just makes me jealous, but boomers would have a fit) then the Karen’s would call the cops.
Someone in the neighborhood called the cops about a black woman going through mailboxes. It was a postal worker, in uniform, in a clearly labeled mail truck. I just don’t get it.
I just don’t get it.
I get it. I wish I didn’t, but I get it.
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Aww so sweet! okno it’s like a politician kissing babies on campaign 1312
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I am usually against yelling “racism” to every single bullshit, but I wonder would this posh neighbourhood react the same way is it was a white boy.
Depends on how he’s dressed. Dressed like Eminem in the early 2000s, probably yes. Dressed with a pink polo and khakis, hell no.
How do you think those same people in that posh neighborhood would describe how eminem dressed in the early 2000s?
neighbour who the fuck mows in a polo and khakis
No
