Two white women were caught on video verbally and physically attacking their Latinx neighbors this week. The incident occurred in the small Denver suburb of Commerce, Colorado. Posted to YouTube by Carlos Ruiz, the three-minute-long video begins in the midst of a physical altercation. The footage is unclear but appears to show one of the female neighbors and the two white women grappling. A male neighbor shouted, “Let her go!” Then another neighbor attempted to break up the fracas. At that point, one of the white women began flailing her arms and screaming, “You know what? Back off. You old ass fat bitch, get off!” The altercation continued as the white woman and neighbor traded slaps. The video cuts in again with the white women screaming at the family in front of their home. After a series of shouts and attacks, one of the white women started to explain that the police are on the way, asking, “Who do you think they’re going to believe?” “You’re drunk, I’m not, you’re going to jail,” the neighbor responded. “You are!” the white woman replied. The next scene is arguably the most telling. A female member of the family sternly reminded the white woman, “You came to my property!” This upset the white woman to a breaking point. “You know what? Look at yourself! Compared to me, who are you? Who are you to us? No, all of you!” she screamed. The white women then made a show of pretending to head back home–directly across the street–before reminding their neighbors that they’ll be living there for the rest of the year. Eventually,officers with the Commerce City Police Department arrives. As each side made their case to the officers in the two patrol SUVs that arrive, one of the white women lashed out again, screaming, “You old, fat Mexican bitches!” At this point, one of the officers threatened to jail one of the women, sardonically noting, “It’s looking real good for you.” https://lawandcrime.com/caught-on-v...panic-family-during-physical-encounter-video/
A man told his story about an experience he described as racial profiling in a neighborhood where he was parked in his car. Ezekiel Phillips said if he weren’t black, a white woman would have never felt threatened by his presence. “You don’t have to call 911 on me. Talk to me. Ask me my name,” Phillips said. The incident happened around 1 p.m. in May 30. Phillips had just dropped someone off near 1470 Ramillo Avenue in Long Beach and decided to take a 30-minute break before going to his yoga class, which was around the corner. He was listening to his bikram yoga CD in when a woman walked up to his car. “You’re not supposed to be here. This is a good neighborhood. At that moment I’m like, ‘wait hold up’. Have a good day ma’am. Namaste. And I rolled my window up,” he told FOX 11 reporter, Leah Uko. The verbal exchange escalated from there. “She took her phone out; started taking pictures, filming doing whatever she was doing. Hey I went to film school. I can take film as well. So I got out the car, I started filming her as soon as I start filming her, ‘what are you doing?’ Leave me alone! I’m feeling threatened. Help! Help!’ It was one of those.” The woman called for Long Beach police to come to her street. In the 911 audio obtained by FOX 11, the woman is heard addressing the operator. “I noticed him two houses up from my parents’ house and I’m like, you know and he’s waving to me. I don’t know who he is.“ She added, “I go ‘why are you sitting in your car in our neighborhood? And he goes ‘I’m resting’ and I’m like you weren’t two blocks back’’.” As she walked to a neighbor’s house, Phillips followed her. “I can’t get away from him! Get away from me!” She yelled over the call. Phillips said he was going to leave, but decided to stay. “I thought about it. ‘If I leave, it’s looking like I’m guilty of whatever she’s talking about.” We spoke with the neighbor whose house the woman went over to. He didn’t want to speak on camera, but said he only called 911 because the woman asked and was screaming for help. Other neighbors, including Kelly Odom, agreed with Phillips that the woman’s actions were racist. “We all don’t feel that way,” Odom said referring to white people. “I don’t think if somebody were white sitting in the car, somebody would have called the police. I don’t. I don’t,” She continued. “I think it’s horrible. It’s acting ‘Trumpish’. It’s okay to be a racist and it’s not.” FOX 11 tried finding the woman’s home and called her several times. There was no answer from her as to why she felt threatened or why she stated Phillips attacked someone, which according to the 91 audio call, was not true. “Ma’am. When you say he attacked other persons, what did he do to them?” the operator is overheard. The woman responded saying “He’s trying to give his business card to this other guy that I’m proof that he didn’t do anything to me.” LBPDbdid not file an incident report and said no crime was committed. A spokesperson said that whenever people see something, they should say something. Therefor in this case, the woman felt threatened, LBPD said calling 911 was within reason. It was then up to police who arrived on scene to determine no crime had occurred. Phillips said he hoped this whole incident would be a teachable moment. “It’s no longer cool to allow your discomfort to say that my discomfort is more valuable than the potential fact that this call, your life can be taken.” https://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/man-claims-he-was-racially-profiled-in-long-beach Now yoga can be added to the list of normal activities black people might engage in that get the cops called on them.
Welcome to the Trump-era new normal. Not that there wasn't racism before, but it seems to reaching back to its more distant "golden" age. I'm glad Phillips didn't back down. Idiots should be held to account, and I hope the stupid racist bitch gets all the neighborhood infamy that she deserves.
Play stupid games.... ...win stupid prices. I almost feel like we'd move forward in society if assault laws excluded protection for people running their mouths.