"Dont lie to me, thats a girl's name. What is your name?"

[JHan]

Black Teen ‘Mistaken’ for Larger, Bald Black Man Says Police in Calif. Drew Gun on Her, Punched Her in the Mouth

"A black 19-year-old woman says she was confronted by police at gunpoint, punched in the mouth and bitten by a police dog after Bakersfield, Calif., police apparently mistook her for a much larger, bald black man who was suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store.

According to the Bakersfield Californian, Tatyana Hargrove’s story is picking up more and more attention since the NAACP in Bakersfield posted a video to its Facebook page of her sharing her story. That video, in which Hargrove insists that race played a role in the brutal encounter, has gotten 3.8 million views so far."

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"Bakersfield police say they mistook the 5-foot-2, 115-pound Hargrove, age 19, for a suspect who was described as being a 25- to 30-year-old bald man with a goatee, who stands at around 5 foot 10 and weighs 170 pounds."

.............................................. A 5 ft 2 young woman confused for a 5 ft 10 bald man with a goatee.

fuck this shit.

http://www.theroot.com/black-teenager-mistaken-for-larger-bald-black-man-says-1796840022?utm_source=theroot_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

[irisblue]

1. On reading the article....👿👿👿👿

"I'm a girl. I just don't dress like one."
Police stupidity + racism+ gender uncertianity =asshole cops.
Fuck that shit.

[JHan]

5. rest assured some assholes will latch on to the preposterous idea she shoved an officer.

[sheshe2]

2. Assholes should have their eyes checked..

if they think she fit the description. Guess they just stopped listening after the word black.

[JHan]

6. that's exactly what they did - saw "black" and nothing else.

it could have been a child, they saw color first. They have no business being police officers.

[sheshe2]

8. Exactly.

[lunasun]

3. I will look for the Ben Harper line on this about how every time they stop to do this ,someone bad

is left on the streets .
Odds are they knew what she was and decided to go after that with short attention span and all
Also the story they tell makes them look bad anyway as some commented ......
3 cops and this was the story?
If a 5-2, 115 pound girl can knock you to the fucking ground and jump on top of you and pin you, you should reconsider being a police officer or, at the very least, be sent back to the academy for additional training.

[irisblue]

4. Truth

[JHan]

7. Yep.

Dehumanization - where anyone black is a potential target, and victimized regardless...

Happens.Every.Single.Fucking.Day.Somewhere.In.America.

[lunasun]

9. I found an article dif qoute- when they are coming after me, someone else is getting away

I've read him putting in it in a different way but this gets that thought across
He is talking about his release with the song Call it what it is ( murder) last year and his own experiences

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/ben-harper-reluctant-protest-singer/475173/


***Also a good read for those who claim that economic equality alone makes everything just puppies and unicorns for POC

[JHan]

10. haven't listened to Ben in a while..

think I'll check that album out.

... and of course, harassment is no stranger to even affluent PoC.