The CAREN Law: San Francisco To Vote On Punishing Citizens For Calling Police On Blacks
10/22/2020
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Earlier: Just Make It Illegal To Call The Cops On Blacks: Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer Wants To Make "Racially Motivated" 911 Calls A Hate Crime and NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Conditioning Whites To Feel Guilty For Calling The Cops On Blacks VISIBLY BREAKING THE LAW

UPDATE: The CAREN act passed unanimously: CAREN Act: San Francisco officials vote unanimously to ban racially-motivated 911 calls, ABC, October 22, 2020.

Seriously, just make it illegal to call 911 on black people. It’s where we headed as a society. Call it the Emmett Till Act.

San Francisco officials to vote on ‘CAREN’ law to stop 911 calls against Black people not committing crime: The city’s Board of Supervisors will vote on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, Fox News, October 20, 2020

Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about with life, San Francisco supervisors are set to approve new hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, also known as the CAREN legislation. The name is a nod to a widespread meme using the name “Karen” to describe a specific type of white, middle-aged woman, who exhibits behaviors that stem from privilege, such as using the police to target people of color.

All 11 supervisors have signed on to the legislation, guaranteeing its passage, despite criticism by some that the name is sexist and unnecessarily divisive.

In San Francisco, a white couple was criticized on social media after video was widely shared of their questioning a Filipino American stenciling “Black Lives Matter” in front of his own home in June. They later called police.

James Juanillo said he deliberately chose yellow chalk to match the color of the house, and centered the stencil just so to be framed by the picture box window. Then a couple approached him, repeatedly demanding to know if this was his home because he was defacing private property.

“They tried to cast it as a criminal scene,” he said. “It was me calmly applying chalk, not spray paint, not in the middle of the night but very deliberately. The only thing that was missing was a pinot grigio.”

Juanillo said he hopes the legislation will caution people in the future against turning to 911.

Shamann Walton, the supervisor who introduced the legislation said, “911 calls and emergency reports are not customer service lines for racist behavior.

“People of color have the right to do everyday activities and should not be subject to being harassed due to someone’s racial bias.”

Walton, who is Black, reeled off examples where minorities have suffered from bogus claims, including Emmitt Till, a Black teenager beaten to death in 1955 after accusations by a white woman who later admitted to lying.

It is crushing to be confronted by police, say supporters of the legislation, because someone saw you as a threat, possibly criminal or as not belonging. It’s especially terrifying for Black people for whom encounters with police could end in violence.

“This is not hyperbole,” said Brittni Chicuata, chief of staff at the city’s Human Rights Commission. “This is an established pattern reflected in the disparate treatment of Black people and other people of color in our city and in our country.”

In May, Amy Cooper, a white woman, called 911 from Manhattan’s Central Park, frantically and falsely claiming that an African American man — who had politely asked her to leash her dog — was threatening her.

The entire Black Lives Matter movement exists to basically legalize black criminality.

Just make it illegal to call 911 on a black criminal. That’s the only way for white people to actually check their privilege once and for all.

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