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Judi Lynn

(160,452 posts)
Fri Jul 13, 2018, 11:28 PM Jul 2018

White California Woman Calls Cops On Black Man Sitting In His Car Waiting For Yoga Class To Start

Source: Vibe


National Latifah Muhammad @thelatifah | July 13, 2018 - 10:47 pm

A white woman in Long Beach, Calif. called 911 on a black man after claiming that she felt “threatened” after confronting him as he sat quietly in his car waiting for his yoga class to start.

Ezekiel Phillips had finished dropping a friend off when he decided to pull over in the residential neighborhood near the yoga studio. As he waited, a woman approached his car and said, “You’re not supposed to be here, this is a good neighborhood,” Phillips recently told L.A.’s Fox 11 news.

Phillips said that he initially reacted by rolling up his car window, until the woman pulled out her cell phone. He took his phone out as well and began recording the woman before getting out of his car and following her as she walked away up the block to a neighbor’s house while frantically calling 911.

“He won’t leave me alone! Get away from me!” the woman can be heard screaming in the 911 recording. The woman also lied to the operator and said that Phillips “attacked” another person.

Read more: https://www.vibe.com/2018/07/white-california-woman-calls-911-black-man-sitting-in-car/

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White California Woman Calls Cops On Black Man Sitting In His Car Waiting For Yoga Class To Start (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2018 OP
I'm sure they don't care, but they could get someone killed dawg day Jul 2018 #1
Care??? That's the GOAL! ret5hd Jul 2018 #16
I want to scream Solly Mack Jul 2018 #2
Why isn't she arrested? rockfordfile Jul 2018 #3
Saying someone committed an act of violence to police when they didn't, should be a crime. onecaliberal Jul 2018 #4
It is a crime, in all jurisdictions. ManiacJoe Jul 2018 #8
Unfuckingbelievable onecaliberal Jul 2018 #15
That woman on the tape sounded like a crackpot. madaboutharry Jul 2018 #5
Oh, dear lord. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #6
One of the 53% of white women voters who voted for trump brush Jul 2018 #7
glad the news went to talk to her... so she knows what she's done is news Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #9
Was shocked to see a local Fox reporter was sent to cover the story. Who would expect that? Judi Lynn Jul 2018 #11
Local Fox channel reporters aren't Fox News people. Kablooie Jul 2018 #12
#Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility Initech Jul 2018 #10
If you look at the video still at the OP link BumRushDaShow Jul 2018 #13
To be fair, he COULD have had a Black Belt in yoga JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2018 #14
Can he sue her? Cold War Spook Jul 2018 #17

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. I'm sure they don't care, but they could get someone killed
Fri Jul 13, 2018, 11:31 PM
Jul 2018

The police hear, "He attacked me!"
They arrive guns blazing.

Someone probably called the police on Tamir Rice, let's not forget that. I hate to think we should be afraid to call the police, but these people should be penalized for calling wrongly.

She should at least be billed for every penny the police dept spent dealing with her lies.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
8. It is a crime, in all jurisdictions.
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 12:29 AM
Jul 2018

Prosecutors choosing to charge folks with the crime is a different conversation.

madaboutharry

(40,190 posts)
5. That woman on the tape sounded like a crackpot.
Fri Jul 13, 2018, 11:50 PM
Jul 2018

She confronts him, says some racist shit, and then gets all hysterical when he tries to ask her what she’s doing. Ugh. People have got to get over themselves. Having black skin doesn’t make a person suspicious!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,816 posts)
6. Oh, dear lord.
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 12:11 AM
Jul 2018

I cannot imagine behaving as she did. I'm a white woman (almost 70) and I'm very aware of my gender and age related vulnerability. However, I cannot begin to imagine calling 911 in the above circumstance.

Not that it matters, but I have only called 911 once and only once in my life: a couple of years ago I witnessed a man on a bicycle, on the wrong side of the street, blowing through a red light and being hit. Totally his fault, but of course he was injured and so I, as well as several others called 911. Again, the one and only time I've ever called that number. I will say that I was very impressed with the professionalism of the woman who answered my call and the rapid arrival of medical help.

brush

(53,743 posts)
7. One of the 53% of white women voters who voted for trump
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 12:12 AM
Jul 2018

They've learned how to assert their racist by weaponizing their cell phones.

Fortunately for us they're to stupid to know that we the "victimized" know how to use cell phones too—to video and upload their racists asses.

Judi Lynn

(160,452 posts)
11. Was shocked to see a local Fox reporter was sent to cover the story. Who would expect that?
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 01:05 AM
Jul 2018

You might expect a Fox reporter going out to rewrite the story so it came out with the man in the car deserving that racist idiocy.

Kablooie

(18,612 posts)
12. Local Fox channel reporters aren't Fox News people.
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 02:37 AM
Jul 2018

They aren't required to have a conservative bias.

But Sinclair is now buying up many local Fox channels and turning them into Fox News clones.
I don't think they've bought anything in the LA area though.

Initech

(100,043 posts)
10. #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility #Civility
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 12:53 AM
Jul 2018

BumRushDaShow

(128,527 posts)
13. If you look at the video still at the OP link
Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:51 AM
Jul 2018

the guy even had on a baseball cap with a big American flag stitched onto it. Yet that was not enough.

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