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  Exactly.  That 9-year-old had been his neighbor for eight years. It defies credulity that he did not recognize her.
context: I like this mom.  
  “This happened because of what happened to Bobbi, but it also happened because the whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam,’” Joseph reportedly remarked. “I just appreciate it. It means the world.” >
  
  As someone who has done insect research professionally, even in officially marked vehicles you sometimes get people giving you odd looks and calling the cops.  I'd hate to see a little girl with an interest in the subject get discouraged because she ran into an asshole early on.  Just the fact that she has a passion for bugs so early means she has the potential to do well in the field, and we should be doing everything possible to make sure she doesn't lose that passion. >
  
  I used to check fields and count how many moths were stuck on a glue trap to see how bad the issue was in the field. Sometimes the farmer himself (who is the one who hired our company to do this) would come out to me in the field asking who I am and what I'm doing. Sir... My truck has the company logo what do you mean who am I?? >
  
  It would happen all the time on contracts for utility companies for me.  The utility company would tell us we were to to go and that they had already talked to any landowners who needed talking to and then we'd get a bunch of the landowners going "who the hell are you and why are you here?" >
  
  How many fucking companies say "yeah, we'll send someone out", and not deign to give a time or day or week or month?  It's too god damned high. I need plans! Details! Not silence for six weeks and then a random worker showing up out of the blue. 
  Also, I'm not even slightly mad at you, I'm mad at your employer for being donkeys. I'd wager we can probably even commiserate on this fact. >
  
  I'm picturing you chasing people with a pitchfork like a... maniacal wildebeest. >
  
  I like how you spelled it correctly, but I definitely am leaning into the wordplay on maniacal beast on purpose.  So yes, let your imagination run wild! >
  
  
  wordplay on maniacal beast on purpose
  
  Like Oscar Wilde? >
  
  The guy who called the cops on her is a local (town) politician well-known to the community as openly and unapologetically racist. >
  
  If he wasn’t before he sure is well known and openly racist now >
  
  You look at her photo and she’s CLEARLY just a little girl. And even if she wasn’t, what could she be doing with a spray bottle that would’ve warranted police being called? >
  
  This is an easy question to answer.  The caller was a racist Karen. >
  
  That's what I thought too, but he's actual Gordon Lawshe a racist NJ politician. Make sure to use his name Gordon Lawshe so hopefully that racist never gets elected again >
  
  You mean NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe? >
  
  RACIST NJ Karen Gordon Lawshe? >
  
  Oh, you mean THE Racist Child-hating Karen GORDON LAWSHE >
  
  Why TF is shit like this still happening!? Who reports a little girl over a fucking project!? >
  
  Someone who calls her a Black "woman" to dispatch. >
  
  
  There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.
  
  Nothing scarier than a 9 year old in a public space treating trees with a spray bottle. No way to deal with this without involving the police. If you were to approach her in the public space she'd probably have killed them with her blackness.
  "She's got some kind of hard chalky substance, and she's etching symbols with it onto the sidewalk. I think it might be gang signs or maybe a symbol to rob this house later. She's a black woman on the small side, about 2 foot 8." >
  
  You can never be too careful around the mini black folks. >
  
  I genuinely feel like we should know as a society that you don't call the cops on people unless you are ok with there being a non-zero chance of that person ending up dead.
  In fact, I feel so strongly that we should know that as a society, that I think we do know that as a society. And that leads me to one inescapable conclusion about the ~~woman~~ person who called the cops on a 9 year old spraying trees.
  Edit: Sorry, I just assumed it was some neighborhood karen. The details are even worse. >
  
  I read about this several months ago. I'm not in a position to post any sources at the moment, but the dude who called in is some kind of politician or ex politician, And he used every word necessary to get a black person killed if the officer that arrived didn't have the shred of common sense that the one who responded did. Absolutely disgusting >
  
  The attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.
  Who the fuck does this attorney think they are to tell this girl what she can or cannot feel? What in the actual fuck is wrong with people??
  I wish we could shame these people into the depths of their own little existence and keep them out of the rest of society, but that would require them to feel shame and embarrassment, but we all know the only feeling they have is “fear of non-white people”. Which they’ll express over and over again. >
  
  
  The attorney he hired, told an outlet that it’s “absurd” that a 9 year old black girl, who just had the cops called on her, could be afraid of police.
  
  I'm a 47 year old white guy and if the police got called on me for just doing normal stuff outside then I would be afraid. A little kid (especially a black kid given everything that's happened)? They definitely would be afraid. >
  
  Black people are expected to control their emotions when cops won't control theirs. >
  
  FFS, it's a little girl. Just walk up and ask her what she's doing, you dumb racist. >
  
  To call her a little black woman is wild >
  
  The perceptive adultification of black children has only gotten worse over time >
  
  I’ve noticed that throughout my life, I never understood why. >
  
  You can’t hate a child, call a 9 year old a women and hate away!
  Racism. >
  
  Not just racist, you see the same thing with rape victims and its disgusting. >
  
  "relations with a young woman"
  Raped a child. You mean they raped a 10 year old child.
  I'll take biased reporting for 300, Alex. >
  
  For real. Once you start noticing it, it’s everywhere and it’s disgusting. >
  
  ...and why the GOP has made it a priority to attack Critical Race Theory. >
  
  its why they hate "wokeness" they want people to stay blind. >
  
  She's just spraying there...MENACINGLY >
  
  The body cam video of that is so funny sad. The cop is like "what's in your hand!?" and the guy is so exasperated when he open and closes the claw a few times and says "it's a trash grabber!!" >
  
  Terrifying. They keep yelling at him to put down the "weapon", the "object", etc. and he keeps repeating, "It's a trash grabber! I'm picking up trash! I live here!"
  Then when he finally sets down the bucket and trash grabber and takes a step or two away, one "brave" cop rushes in to grab them before running away with them.
  A dozen armed cops, with one cop even brandishing a shotgun, and they're all allegedly scared/threatened by a young man picking up trash outside his home. >
  
  Yes, the rest of the video is horrifying. Just the part I said made me laugh in a sad way. I thought it was so awful how he kept having to say "I live here" and the cops didn't believe him. It shouldn't even matter if he lived there, he's doing a community service. >
  
  “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though
  How fragile are you right now? A little girl with a spray bottle scares you?  You could have just asked her what she was doing. >
  
  He called for a gun cause he wanted them dead >
  
  this. the police are a racist hit squad. she wanted them to do to that little girl what the memphis cops just got caught doing >
  
  Why call the police when you can just go fucking talk to her!?
  People are just stupid, hateful, assholes. >
  
  That little black woman might have had a gun! >
  
  Not for nothing but she's so fucking little and adorable! How on earth could anyone but a racist see her as a threat!? >
  
  And yet the shit that reported her to the filth aged her by several decades.
  
  “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,” the caller told police, CNN reported. “I don’t know what the hell she’s doing. Scares me, though.”
  
  Let's call this what it is - socially acceptable racism cowering behind acceptable terminology. >
  
  His racism aside, does he not realize that saying a literal child scared him is incredibly embarrassing? I'd rather die. >
  
  Probably why they said it was a woman instead; dude knew if he said girl he would be laughed at yet he couldn’t bring himself to realize how stupid his reaction is >
  
  Self aware enough to know that, but not enough to realize how much of a dick he is. >
  
  As a child (white girl), I remember being all over my neighborhood—especially cutting through back yards and jumping fences to short-cut to friends’ houses. (And I was never doing anything remotely scholarly for my age while roaming about). I never had to worry about being in danger, and I was technically trespassing!
  I’m really glad that the Yale community/School of Public Health supported Bobbi in her interest, and helped further expose the reality of how Black children are often unfairly perceived. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time to see her face. >
  
  Growing up, all the neighborhood kids knew which properties connected, where trails were, which fences could be jumped, which yard had dogs, etc. >
  
  Imagine calling the police over a 9 year old girl looking for bugs. Some people are just terrible. >
  
  
  Bobbi, who is Black, unwittingly touched off a national discussion about the sometimes mortal danger associated with racial profiling on 22 October, when a neighbor called the police on her 
  
  What does this say about the state of policing in the US when calling them potentially puts a child in mortal danger. Police are supposed to be the safe haven, not the danger. >
  
  The guy who called the police on her is a well-known Republican figure in that specific community and he referred to a child as a "tiny black young lady" >
  
  IIRC, it was "Little Black Woman". >
  
  Of course. He knew that referring to her as an adult would be likelier to bring police and make the situation more dangerous for her.