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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichigan city moves to criminalize calling 911 on people of color who are just living their lives
?1536080096Sweeping amendments to a 66-year-old human rights ordinance might make Grand Rapids, Mich. the latest city to try to tackle the epidemic of racially-motivated abuses of emergency services. The planned changes would make it a criminal misdemeanor to racially profile people of color for participating in their lives.
Diversity and Inclusion Manager Patti Caudill said the ordinance is a new concept in Michigan. It isnt meant to discourage 911 calls, she said. Rather, its meant to make people check their biases before calling the police.
Call the police, but if youre calling because your neighbors are having a barbecue and youre calling because of some implicit bias because theyre people of color, we dont want to see that, she said.
The scenarios Caudill cites are all too familiar these days: White people keep calling 911 on people of color while theyre simply trying to live their best lives. The depressing #LivingWhileBlack hashtag never lacks new fodder, since black people face the brunt of these racist actions that waste valuable first-responder resources. The epidemic, which we can only hope peaked in 2018, showed the nation just how hard it is to be a person of color in spaces that bigots have declared to be for whites only.
More: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/20/1851828/-Michigan-city-moves-to-make-a-crime-to-call-911-on-people-of-color-who-are-just-living-their-lives?fbclid=IwAR1uqK3MBdDIW8BOCOrjxWkhC89aOElWm0uotYRJqSZDJwRiM_HKgcVlqx0
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Michigan city moves to criminalize calling 911 on people of color who are just living their lives (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Apr 2019
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47of74
(18,470 posts)1. If racist fornicate sticks can't behave
I have a new hashtag for them.
#ImARacistFuckStickWithTooMuchTimeOnMyHands
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)2. About damn time
Hekate
(90,865 posts)3. It is about time to stop both the harrassment and the utter waste of Emergency Services