Falsely accused black college students get apology

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jim Salter, Associated Press
Updated 5:19 pm CDT, Thursday, July 19, 2018

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The city manager and police chief in a suburban St. Louis town apologized Thursday to a group of black college students after police wrongly accused them of a dine-and-dash and used several squad cars to escort them back to a restaurant.

Clayton city manager Craig Owens said he and chief Kevin Murphy met with several of the 10 Washington University students, calling the meeting "emotionally powerful." Owens said in a statement that he and Murphy left the meeting with a better understanding of "what it is like to be a young African-American who is confronted by the police." Owens and Murphy are white.

The incident involved 10 incoming freshmen on campus for a five-week summer program to help them prepare for university life at the prestigious school that sits that sits at the boundary of St. Louis and Clayton.

After a late-night dinner at a Clayton IHOP restaurant the students were walking to a light rail station around 12:30 a.m. July 8 when they were approached by two officers.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Falsely-accused-black-college-students-get-apology-13089551.php

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The college is Joe Madison's alma mater

and he mentioned on the show this morning, that he had received alumni correspondence that had a copy of the school's fiery letter to the business/city about this disgrace.

[IronLionZion]

2. How would whites feel about being punished for other whites' crimes?

some white meth head robbed and killed some people so let's go arrest some college educated whites wearing MAGA hats and perp walk them in a way that publicly shames them and promote the stereotype of Trumpanzees as criminals

[mercuryblues]

3. They showed the police

receipts to prove they paid and still were made to go back for identification at the restaurant.

https://www.vibe.com/2018/07/florida-police-chief-arrest-anybody-black/

Former Florida police chief Raimundo Atesiano faces 11 years in prison for allegedly instructing cops in 2014 to arrest “anybody black” for unrelated crimes to achieve perfect crime stats.
“’If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries,’ ” Officer Anthony De La Torre said. “They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.”