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Who could have a problem with this?

well you see, according to the pictures in the article the kid is Black.

Yeah I just can't qwhite put my finger on it.

Yeah I hear that a lot in my own town.

"Kids these days stay inside too much" kids go outside and they're calling the cops. Gee wonder why the kids don't go outside anymore.

You know, nothing summed it up quite like the whole Pokemon Go craze. It was wild, people of all ages were out like it was a festival every day. I've never seen main street so active before or since, and the parks too. That was like the best four weeks, perhaps a feeling I haven't had since being a kid on summer vacation, it really felt like summer meant something again.

And oh my god the old folks were livid. At kids playing. In the park. There are people in the city park, there aren't supposed to be people there, it's supposed to be empty and dilapidated.

I can understand not wanting to pay a kid for lawn work, I've been broke before. Just say no thank you and go on with life.

That being said, we hire kids in our neighborhood all the time.

We have two girls (9 and 6, I think, never met them, grandma drives and "supervises") who come pick up dog poop, and we've had a kid for a couple years who turned mowing yards in the summer into an LLC and he just hired his first employee to help out with client growth.

I know if he wasn't a white blonde kid who looks halway decent (long hair, which just makes me jealous, but boomers would have a fit) then the Karen's would call the cops.

Someone in the neighborhood called the cops about a black woman going through mailboxes. It was a postal worker, in uniform, in a clearly labeled mail truck. I just don't get it.

Honestly, just racism. I know a group of people who were knocking on doors advertising a community event and the cops were called on the one black dude they had with them. He always has a big smile on him and doesn't look threatening at all, so I find it hard to believe that it's not just racism.

I can't understand white someone would do it either.

I find it hard to believe the police turned up.

"Hello police, there is a kid mowing gardens." Isn't exactly a priority response call.

Can't really grasp (edit: NOT grapes!) it either, have a theory but I hate being so cynical.

Yeah, when they say that they mean white kids.

They don't want blacks anywhere near their neighbourhood.

The kid knew this all along… Karen and cop are just pawns in his 4D chess.

Nice UpliftingNews with a dash of ABoringDystopia thrown in

Good cops do exist. The problem is that when a good cops does something like this it makes a kid really happy, but when there's a bad cop somebody fucking dies. It's not that there aren't enough good cops, it's that any amount of bad cops is too many and instead of purging them the system protects them. I'd rather have 100% neutral competent cops than 99% good cops and 1% bad cops who are protected by the system to continue murdering people.

Definitely wanted to spite Karen, but that doesn't make them bad cops.

The was a black preacher who had the cops called on him for watering his neighbors plants while they were on vacation. They even arrested him.

Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.

It's happened a few times to me, most of the time it's just awkward for me and the cop and they just politely ask me to go home.

One time they tried to gaslight me into thinking I was on drugs, didn't really work because I think I'd remember if I did a bunch of crack.

The neighborhood I grew up in was like that. I didn't notice until I moved away for college and then came back home to visit. It was a 100% residential neighborhood, with no businesses really in walking distance. Anyone out walking was wearing Walking Clothes^TM^.

If someone old enough to drive were just walking down the street as if it was their mode of transportation, not an exercise activity, they would at minimum be stared at with suspicion until they were safely away from the starer's house and at maximum have the police called "just to check out the situation."

It didn't occur to me that this was strange until I moved away to a mixed use neighborhood with businesses and residences and lots of people walking to get where they were going.

And this fine should be used to buy the PS5.

The apples that haven’t rotted all the way through…

You don't call the cops on someone in America unless you're hoping they make the evening news. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.

Depends on how he's dressed. Dressed like Eminem in the early 2000s, probably yes. Dressed with a pink polo and khakis, hell no.