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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Apparently Yale too.

A black Yale student was taking a nap in a common room in her dorm earlier this week when a white student saw her sleeping and decided to call the police.

Lolade Siyonbola, who is a graduate student at Yale, was woken up by the classmate and interrogated by law enforcement for 15 minutes. According to Siyonbola, the white student told police that she appeared out of place in the building.

“I deserve to be here. I pay tuition like everybody else,” Siyonbola told police officers in a video posted to Facebook. “I’m not going to justify my existence here.”

The Yale incident is the latest in a number of recent, high-profile cases where people of color have been racially profiled, confronted by police, and, in some cases, arrested after white business owners, employees, or bystanders viewed them with suspicion. Many of the incidents have spread on social media, calling national attention to the issue.

In April, two black men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, were arrested for trespassing as they waited inside a Philadelphia Starbucks for a business partner. The men later said they had been inside the Starbucks for mere minutes before the store’s manager called 911 because they sat down without ordering anything.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/11/17340908/racial-profiling-starbucks-yale-police-violence-911-bias
abe182 · 51-55, M
@SatanBurger I just want to say, she also pays good money to have a dorm room to sleep in.
@SatanBurger Three teenagers looking for last-minute deals before a prom were trailed by Nordstrom Rack employees in suburban St. Louis on May 3. When they left the store carrying the items they bought, they were met by the police outside. The officers let them go after looking at their receipts and inside their bags and car.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pitchblue Wow that's really racist and humiliating to do to someone. I would be pissed after spending my hard earned money there.
@SatanBurger Yes but racist people think it's their right to call on Black People. Trump let White people punch Black people in the face at his rallies and then said in the old days "they" would be taken out on a stretcher. "I'll pay your legal fees" But the guy that sucker punched a Black Person that was being escorted out of the rally did not get his legal bills paid for.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@abe182 She fell asleep after working on a paper for a long time, it happens. She also pays good money to go wherever she wants to go on campus, this isn't North Korea.
@SatanBurger Someone once called the police on my middle sister for trying to break into her own house. Apparently she was taking too long to unlock her door. The police made her wait while she put her groceries down and produced her driver’s license, with people watching. The guy who called had just moved into the neighborhood. Didn’t apologize or anything, nor did the police. Some of the other neighbors did speak up for her, at least.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@bijouxbroussard That would make me feel so hurt, I'd turn around and say "no I'm just breaking into this house to give them free groceries!" Since I had groceries in my hand. It's even worse he never apologized but I suspect he did it because he was racist.
@SatanBurger These situations escalate all the time then the officer beats the person up, throws cuffs on them and charges them for assault on an officer.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pitchblue Yeah I could see them putting it on youtube and then having racists distort it for their propaganda.
@SatanBurger Kanye goes crazy again and what happened? Racists distorted it for their propaganda. Trump jumped on it like a fat kid on a smarty.