Fancy speak for “walking while black”
Yup. As a Canadian I was visiting TX many years ago and was dumbfounded when I saw a cop car roll past me, stop and then reverse… All so they could pace beside a black man walking on the sidewalk. He was wearing a nice suit and carrying a briefcase, clearly walking home from work. Racist assholes.
When I was working on a TV set in a not great part of Brooklyn they used to have us production assistants walk to the subway together when leaving for the night. It kept a black member of our crew safe when NYPD decided to pace us and single him out for harassment for a whole city block.
😕 how horrible. I’m glad you all were there for him, it’s shameful though that our society as a whole still cares about skin colour 💔
I think it needs a few more circles.
‘Walking While Black’, in my South Fl. rides I tell you driving on sidewalk or even parking on sidewalks enforcement is non-existent.
That must mean either a pedestrian having not used an existing sidewalk or somebody driving their car on the sidewalk.
Any idea what is really behind this newspaperclip?
This looks like it could very well be a very serious crime, Walking While Black. They must not have that on the books in that particular Texas county, which is why he was charged with a comparable misdemeanor. /S
More likely that the cop stopped him for Walking While Black, but couldn’t manufacture any charges more serious than the use of sidewalk charge.
Use of sidewalk in Texas (one of the counties listed) seems to indicate someone was walking in the road when a sidewalk was available for pedestrians. Which, ya know, seems like a safer place for doing the walking thang.
Which, ya know, seems like a safer place for doing the walking thang.
There was one street near me where it was indeed the opposite. The road was barely used, but pristine. Sidewalk was in awful shape, you could easily trip on the holes, and one manhole cover was bent and barely holding on, as it was actually just some metal sheet.
I only used it as a kid when I rode my bike, as it was more fun.Aren’t Texas sidewalks notorious for stopping randomly and switching sides not near crosswalks? So it’s far from certain it would be safer than just booking it down the shoulder for a short stretch.
