Black teen detained while riding home from church with white grandma because couple thought he was

[workinclasszero]

Black teen detained while riding home from church with white grandma because couple thought he was robbing her
Travis Gettys 06 SEP 2018 AT 10:54 ET

A young black man was handcuffed by Wisconsin police on his way home from church Sunday because two passersby saw him in a car with a white woman — who is his grandmother.

Akil Carter, 18, was riding with his grandmother and her friend when they were pulled over by Wauwatosa after a black couple reported that he was robbing two older white women, reported the Journal-Sentinel.


The incident was recorded on police video, and police said officers drew their handguns but pointed them away from the Carter and the two women.

Officers called Carter toward them, rather than approaching the vehicle, and placed him in handcuffs for about six minutes while they investigated the witness report.

Video recorded in the squad car shows the handcuffed Carter explaining that his grandmother was the passenger and her friend was driving the car.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/black-teen-detained-riding-home-church-white-grandma-couple-thought-robbing/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Keep it up, racists. Keep it up assholes.

And thank your lucky stars this is not happening TO YOU at the hands of POC, because by now if it were there would not be a single building left standing in this great country of ours.

You folks would simply not tolerate being treated this way and you folks would burn the country to the ground.

[leftynyc]

7. Looks like the report

came from a black couple unless I'm reading this wrong:

Akil Carter, 18, was riding with his grandmother and her friend when they were pulled over by Wauwatosa after a black couple reported that he was robbing two older white women, reported the Journal-Sentinel.

[haele]

13. There's an '80's quote from Jessie Jackson about his own fear of gangs of young black men...

But the context was in complaints about lack of opportunities for those young men having left them with only gang activities to make any sort of life for themselves in their disadvantaged communities. And frankly, any group of young men can be a bit intimidating, as young men in groups have a bad tendency to follow their "pack leader" until they gain enough confidence and maturity to be able to think and act for themselves.

But...I don't think this is where the gentleman who "flagged down the officers" and pointed out the young man and his grandmother was coming from.

Not being a PoC myself, I can't use the term I want to use for him, but I think the man is more like a rather infamous self-hating character in the comic strip "Boondocks".

Haele

[Doodley]

2. The couple who contacted the police should be charged with wasting police time.

[workinclasszero]

5. The police DREW GUNS on this poor kid

riding home from church with his Grandma FFS!!!!!

They could have killed him in a hail of bullets for NOTHING!!!

THIS IS WHY KAP AND OTHERS IN THE NFL ARE TAKING A KNEE DAMMIT!!!!!

[Doodley]

8. I agree, but if the police receive a report of a suspected kidnap they have to take it seriously.

[workinclasszero]

9. Do you think they would have drawn guns if it was a white kid?

Or only Hispanic and AA kids?

[Doodley]

14. If somebody had reported that a white kid was kidnapping somebody, yes.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. He was obviously "white grandmothering while black". nt

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. Rule of Law in FritzWalkerStan

Wauwatosa is in walker stronghold suburban Milwaukee for those who don't know Wisconsin.

[sarah FAILIN]

6. How do we know the person reporting was black.

This seems suspicious to make a point of saying this.

[Nay]

11. My first thought as well -- now they're going to blame black people for their own racist shit.

[Blue_true]

17. The cops handled the situation right.

They had a report of a potential robbery/kidnapping. They drew their guns but not at the car. Then they tried to figure out what was going on. Exactly HOW SHOULD they have handled it?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. The same thing could have happened to Barack Obama today....

Were he a teenager riding in a car with his white mother and grandmother.

Think about it.......

[dragonlady]

12. More information from the Milwaukee newspaper

The Journal-Sentinel article has more on this incident.

[Generic Other]

15. This is crazy

What is wrong with people?

on edit: I know the answer.

[Blue_true]

16. Honestly, not the cops fault. Look like they handled the situation the way that it should be

handled given the information that they had.