Former NFL player Brandon Marshall was trying to move into his new home. Security called the police

[soothsayer]

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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
@RexChapman
Weston, Florida:

Former NFL player Brandon Marshall was trying to move into his new home.

Security called the police.

His net worth is an estimated $18M

His scared children were in the car. It never ends...

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1. I wish he had told them to get the fu_k off my property.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Looks to me like they are security for his property.

and the other residents of the building. So he's probably, indirectly at least, paying them to be there.

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4. Well, duh. That's called getting security called on you while black.

That doesn't happen to white people moving into their new house.

[Ms. Toad]

8. I was responding specifically to your suggestion

that he tell them to get off his property.

By choosing to move into a gated community, he is choosing to have security guards on "his" property for the express purpose of exluding people who do not live there or are not invited guests of those who do. That's kind of the point of most gated communities.

I'm sure you are correct that they would not have acted the same way had the community list not been updated to include the name of a a white move-in. I was not responding to that.

[George II]

17. That guy waving while standing in front of his patrol car is a police officer.

[Ms. Toad]

18. Correct.

My point was that security wasn't called - they were there at the gates to the gated community where he purchased a new home but was barred from entering beause he wasn't listed as a community member.

Security called the police.

[Blue_true]

3. Fortunately, the police officer was Black. Seven times out of ten, a White police officer would

have escalated the situation.

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6. That's true.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. He waved to viewers as the video of him was taken

nt

[llashram]

30. oh, he'd probably be

shot many times in front of his kids and oops, they made a mistake. 400+ years of this shit and counting. If a person is black in this country they are THE target of every racist out there, whether police or civilian.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Is this a gated community?

It would seem so if your name needs to be on a list, presumably of residents or members, and there's security to enforce it.

Marshall should not have immediately flown off the handle, though.

When I moved into my condo, I had to meet with the Condo Assn officers and read all the rules before getting their sign-off on my sales agreement. When I sold it 8 yrs later, the prospective buyer had to jump through the same hoops. It's possible the real estate agent didn't quite cross all the t's and dot all the i's before Marshall tried to move in.

[Blue_true]

10. I hope that the structure that I saw was the security and maintenance building,

because if it wasn’t, it looked like nothing more than a fancy trailer to me. If that was the residence building, I wouldn’t want to live there, it looked like upscale trash.

[Blue_true]

11. Honestly,if I had to get approval from residents to live somewhere, I would tell them to go fuck

themselves and would find somewhere else to live.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Lots of developments nowdays have

HOAs (home owners associations). Condos have condo associations. They have rules.

The condo I lived in was small and the rules were lightly enforced, if at all. It was the perfect fit for I wanted at the time.

[Blue_true]

13. I would chose to live somewhere else. This is a free country, they are free to do what they want,

I am free to find somewhere else to live.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. Ok

[ornotna]

16. That may be true

But had you not done that beforehand do think they would have called the cops on you?

[Ms. Toad]

20. Other articles about it make it clear that this is a gated community.

His name was not yet on the community roster, which is why they barred him and called the police.

It would seem odd that after he had already purchsed the home that he wasn't placed on the community roster - and I think it is unlikely that they would have treated a new white owner the same way.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Resolved "on scene"

New Times has reached out to Marshall and the Weston gated community for comment.

A BSO (Botanikal Weston) spokesperson said deputies were called to the community on August 17 around 4:15 p.m. The deputies didn't write a report.

"The incident was resolved on scene between the two parties," a spokesperson explained in an email.

Link: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/video-gated-community-calls-police-on-ex-nfl-star-brandon-marshall-11687531

[intheflow]

26. Nice tone policing.

Marshall had every fucking right to fly off the handle when he did. He just bought a home in that community, possibly paying cash, and had the cops called on him because he's a Black man with dreads. Bet you thought Coloin Kaepernick shouldn't have taken a knee, either.

Waiting for your predictable response:
"I don't have a problem with Black people protesting, but they shouldn't protest THAT way."

[StarfishSaver]

27. Sigh

These black people need to stop jumping to conclusions. If only we were more patient and just politely produced our papers whenever any white person questioned our right to occupy the same space that they do, we wouldn't have so much racial strive and division in America ...

[llashram]

33. yeah sure

and he shouldn't have felt the hate of the security guard either, I guess. Oh, he was so wrong to not act as you would have per your explaining of how he should have responded. Is that what you're saying. Yep, the realtor was at fault here and Marshall was the perp by "acting out" and being offended, right?

[mr_lebowski]

9. I wonder why he wasn't on the list?

Glad the cop is a seemingly friendly POC otherwise it could've gone worse for Brandon.

FYI as there was two Brandon Marshall's in the league until recently ... this was apparently the Wide Receiver Brandon Marshall, not the Linebacker Brandon Marshall.

[SpaceNeedle]

15. This is so fucked up

[greenjar_01]

19. I love when assholes say "these privileged athletes" blah blah blah

These issues affect them directly!

[Cha]

21. Wow.. he is Righteously PISSED! Good on him!

[radius777]

23. Just proves the 'class first' argument

pushed by the populist left is bullshit. Lots of well-off blacks and browns get shit on (in ways big and small) by the white supremacist system every day, almost as much as middle and lower class blacks/browns do. 'Identity politics' (social justice) is not some hollow vanity project but really about human rights.

[GulfCoast66]

24. Looks like the cop was thinking'WTF am I doing here'.

Hope those 2 goons are soon looking for a new job. They had a choice. Call the housing company so work it out or call the cops. They chose poorly.

[DeminPennswoods]

25. The security guards did their job,

they stopped an unregistered person from entering a gated community. Posted a link above to a story that the situation was resolved "on scene", presumably meaning the problem was corrected and Marshall was able to beging moving in.

[StarfishSaver]

28. They "resolved" the situation by calling the cops on a black man

I'm quite sure they would not have done this to a white person.

And no, they don't get the benefit of the doubt. My benefit of the doubt goes to the black man whose life they endangered by calling the police on him for being where he had every right to be.

[oasis]

29. "Their job" was to sort things out between homeowner assoc. and Marshall.

It stands to reason, this man just didn't turn up with his kids to enter a gated community if he had no business being there.

The two security dummies at the gate unnecessarily escalated the situation by calling the local police.

[StarfishSaver]

32. Thank you

So sick of this.

[CozyMystery]

31. He asked guard to call front desk; he had just picked up his keys.

Marshall spoke with 7News about the incident on Thursday.

“The reality is, people fear our skin. That’s the reality,” he said. “Like, just moved into a new house, and all I asked the guy was to call the front desk, ’cause literally just got our keys.”

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2020/08/28/police-called-as-ex-nfl-wr-brandon-marshall-moves-into-home-miami-dolphins-denver-broncos-seattle-seahawks-new-york-giants/

There was absolutely NO reason for the guard to call the police.

[llashram]

34. causes a knot in my stomach to watch this

and those two zimmerman clones. Yeah why call the police? Call the Association. Goons, probably trumpers.