{"id":2154,"date":"2020-07-31T04:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2020-07-31T04:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:27:42","slug":"black-teen-riding-bicycle-to-basketball-practice-harassed-by-racist-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"BLACK TEEN RIDING BICYCLE TO BASKETBALL PRACTICE HARASSED BY RACIST NEIGHBOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teen boy detained\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEg721xHRH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The city of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0Tampa\u00a0<\/span>has a long history of racial profiling and harassing black men in general, but specifically when riding bikes.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The former police chief and<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">current mayor of Tampa, Jane Cas<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">tor, had a policy that w<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">as equivalent to New York&#8217;s stop-and-frisk policy but targeted black men on bikes in the Tampa Bay area for minor violations such as helmets and night lights.\u00a0 This was not enforced in white neighborhoods with white citizens.<\/span>\u00a0 These infractions would result in ticketing, arrests and unnecessary stressful enc<\/span>ounters with police that placed black men at risk of brutality and death.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">So, it is not surprising to see that a non-black person would feel they have the authority to mistreat and violate the rights of black men in the same manner that local police have demonstrated is okay. <\/span>Let&#8217;s not forget,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Florida is also the home of the stand-your-ground laws that protected\u00a0<\/span>George Zimmerman in his violent pursuit and murder of Trayvon Martin.\u00a0 That tragic incident sent the message that killing a black man in the name white racist so-called vigilantism is not just legal but rewarded by the justice system and society.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This arrest is what&#8217;s up.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We need to see that racist neighbors like this\u00a0are being charged and exposed to finally send the message that black men in suburbs should not be treated like criminals in their own community.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This type of arrest would not have happened before our reaction to George Floyd&#8217;s death.\u00a0 This is what <em>real<\/em> progress looks like when we speak out and make sure we are heard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of\u00a0Tampa\u00a0has a long history of racial profiling and harassing black men in general, but specifically when riding bikes.\u00a0\u00a0The former police chief and current mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, had a policy that was equivalent to New York&#8217;s stop-and-frisk policy but targeted black men on bikes in the Tampa Bay area for minor 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