Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana
Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana
A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously
A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.
She said he told her that he picked up four bananas, one of which he ate on the way to the register, and that he told the cashier that he needed to pay for four bananas even though she scanned only three. Anjelica Lee said her father told her he was followed closely while he was shopping by a white female employee, who, she said, accused him of stealing the banana he ate.
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“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”
JFC. Racist piece of shit.
Fuck the cops. Fuck this piece of garbage cashier.
Fuck all this.
“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”
You can almost guarantee the victim will be Black.
Every. Fucking. Time.
ACAB
Hey morons, that Monty Python sketch about defending yourself from being attacked with a banana by shooting the attacker was supposed to be a joke.
I sure hope they disarmed the guy.
The cops’ report noted that she “struck him in the arm against his will”.
I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this weasely use of language
Did anybody read the article and see the part where she were threatening the employees with a bat and admitted to it?
I think they’re sort of burying the lede on this one.
I would completely expect the police to show up, armed and ready for someone who did just receive a call about threatening people with a metal bat.
Fuck the police and what they did to him, but let’s not pretend like this isn’t a whole other thing than the headline.
That being said, can anyone tell me what the cops did to this dude other than make him sit in the back of a police car I very well might’ve missed it.
The latter part of that article go wild
Yeah, uh, what the fuck?
Cops: "Well, yeah, but he was black soooo..."
This case needs to be highlighted to a DA or an org that will bring a suit to have the PD pay for this man’s hospitals bill and some sort of settlement for the distress caused to him and his family.
Oh my god, this is terrible
Tragic. He was just happy to see them after all.
Fuck the system.
Did anybody read the article and see the part where she were threatening the employees with a bat and admitted to it?
I think they’re sort of burying the lede on this one.
I would completely expect the police to show up, armed and ready for someone who did just receive a call about threatening people with a metal bat.
Fuck the police and what they did to him, but let’s not pretend like this isn’t a whole other thing than the headline.
That being said, can anyone tell me what the cops did to this dude other than make him sit in the back of a police car I very well might’ve missed it.
The latter part of that article go wild
Did anybody read the article and see the part where she were threatening the employees with a bat and admitted to it?
I think they’re sort of burying the lede on this one.
I would completely expect the police to show up, armed and ready for someone who did just receive a call about threatening people with a metal bat.
Fuck the police and what they did to him, but let’s not pretend like this isn’t a whole other thing than the headline.
That being said, can you give me the tell me what is cops to do this dude other than make him sit in the back of a police car I very well might’ve missed it.
This is Polk County, Florida, home of the cowboy sheriff Grady Judd who has never seen a camera and microphone he didn't want to use to engrandize himself. Except for the body worn ones. Polk County residents are not the most enlightened of people. But, never discount there being two sides to every story.
There's a lot of people being shitty to each other in this story.