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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 09:43 PM Jul 2018

Police say woman screamed racial slurs and smacked a black teen at a pool. She lost her job.

DJ RocQuemore Simmons and his friend hadn’t even managed to dip their toes in the pool before a screaming Stephanie Sebby-Strempel was out of the water and in their faces, shoving DJ in the chest, telling the boys they “didn’t belong” and ordering them to leave.

“Get out! Get out! Get out! Now!” she yelled before threatening to involve the authorities. “There’s three numbers I can call: 9-1-1.”

There was no time for them to tell her or anyone else that they were guests of a neighborhood resident, no time to phone parents. But the 15-year-old did manage to pull out a cellphone camera, recording the belligerent woman and the poolside encounter that turned him into the latest victim of #LivingWhileBlack.

But the lens in Sebby-Strempel’s face seemed to anger her more. She struck the 15-year-old in the chest, then at least twice in the face as he walked toward the exit, police say. She called them “little punks” and used racial slurs.

The boys left without retaliating — even saying “Yes, Ma’am” to Sebby-Strempel, who could not immediately be reached for comment Monday. But DJ’s parents were incensed when they saw the video. Family members posted it on Facebook, where it became instantly viral. Then they called the Dorchester County, South Carolina, sheriff’s office.

Investigators think the video and the witness statements were enough to charge the woman with third-degree assault. The police report deems it an “unprovoked assault” and says that Sebby-Strempel “is clearly the aggressor in the assault even going as far as to continue to assault the victim as he was walking away from her.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-say-woman-screamed-racial-slurs-and-smacked-a-black-teen-at-a-pool-she-lost-her-job/ar-AAzuKCt?li=BBnbcA1

The kids showed amazing restraint in my opinion.

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Police say woman screamed racial slurs and smacked a black teen at a pool. She lost her job. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2018 OP
These atrocities seem to be happening with a higher and dewsgirl Jul 2018 #1
IMO we (whites) are simply SEEING these now b/c of cell videotapes!! bobbieinok Jul 2018 #4
100% Agree. Caliman73 Jul 2018 #7
I'm sure black boys get taught "restraint" very early. shanny Jul 2018 #2
kudos to law enforcement - charged with assault AlexSFCA Jul 2018 #3
Good she's held accountable suprcali Jul 2018 #5
WTF is wrong with people like this? Initech Jul 2018 #6
*SMACK* muthafukkah!! Leghorn21 Jul 2018 #8

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. These atrocities seem to be happening with a higher and
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 09:56 PM
Jul 2018

Higher frequency every week. This is heartbreaking. Thank God for the internet, at least the public is becoming aware of these racist assholes.

Caliman73

(11,728 posts)
7. 100% Agree.
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 01:23 AM
Jul 2018

These events have always been happening, but with the proliferation of cell phones and social media, people are seeing what has been happening to people of color for decades upon decades. So much so that from the 1930's to 1960's the Negro Motorists Green Book was published to guide Black travelers to safe locations.

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
3. kudos to law enforcement - charged with assault
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 01:11 AM
Jul 2018

the guys did the right thing - do not retaliate, record everything on video, make it viral and tag/notify police. This is much more effective way to deal with racists.

suprcali

(108 posts)
5. Good she's held accountable
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 01:16 AM
Jul 2018

Sad that it even happened.

The teens did the right thing and luckily had video to capture her vile actions.

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