Smith College employee calls cops on black student who looked 'out of place' eating lunch ...

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Smith College employee calls cops on black student who looked ‘out of place’ eating lunch in cafeteria

An employee at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts called on campus police to investigate a “suspicious black male” whom they claimed looked “out of place” in one of the school’s cafeterias. However, as the Boston Globe reports, that “black male” actually turned out to be a black female student at Smith who was eating lunch in the cafeteria while taking a break from her summer job at school.

Campus police investigated and found that there was “nothing suspicious about the student’s presence” in the cafeteria. The student, who is not identified by name, angrily wrote about the incident on her Facebook page and accused whoever called the police on her of having racial biases.

“I am blown away at the fact that I cannot even sit down and eat lunch peacefully,” she wrote. “I did nothing wrong, I wasn’t making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black… It’s outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.”

Amy Hunter, the college’s interim director of diversity and inclusion, sent out a message to students decrying the employee’s decision to call the police on a student for eating lunch. “Such behavior can contribute to a climate of fear, hostility and exclusion that has no place in our community,” she wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/smith-college-employee-calls-cops-black-student-looked-place-eating-lunch-cafeteria/

A black Smith College student was eating her lunch when an employee called police

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/01/black-smith-college-student-was-eating-her-lunch-when-employee-called-police/Tjq1jWc8zYJvXEaBN58qlI/story.html

[ProfessorGAC]

1. A Daily Freakin' Occurance

This is getting ridiculous. You can't "steal" a lunch at a cafeteria so obviously she paid for it.

Even if she was a guest for the day, one calls the cops on a paying visitor?

[CrispyQ]

2. The people who make these calls need to be publicly identified & shamed. -nt

[lagomorph777]

10. In this case, the employee needs to be fired.

[KT2000]

3. do these people live under a rock?

Is there a particular rw media that is telling people to do this? Are they thinking the police will assist them with their racism? In some cases that is true (Starbucks).
Publicize their names and get an interview so the crazy is broadcast to all.

[workinclasszero]

4. Trump cultists weaponized 911 for racist harassment of PoC

The people who do this crap should be charged

[dalton99a]

6. +1. And they know damn well that a 911 call could lead to PoC getting shot by police.

[oberliner]

13. The campus police officer was unarmed and apologized on behalf of the person who made the call

[workinclasszero]

14. I'm sure many of them are

hoping for that outcome.

[oberliner]

11. Smith College, Northampton MA is literally the most liberal place in the United States

[MineralMan]

5. That person should now be a "former employee."

Make it so!

[dalton99a]

7. Absolutely.

[Initech]

8. #Civility

[oberliner]

9. Thank you for posting the Boston Globe article that Raw Story plagiarized

Raw Story is part of the reason why so many newspapers are in trouble.

They steal content from others, slap on a click-bait headline, and make sure to get the hits, rather than the source that did the actual reporting.

They even have the nerve to put their own people's names on the bylines, as opposed to the actual person who did the reporting.

Why pay for a Boston Globe online subscription when you can get the pirated version for free, right?

Except, once enough people do that, there won't be a Boston Globe for Raw Story to pirate anymore.

[lame54]

12. She's a blacksmith?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Blacksmith College, part of Equestrian University

https://www.equine-careers.co.uk/equine-college-courses/

Horseshoes don't grow on trees.

http://www.johndoeshoes.com/russet-horsehide-footwear/