White ex councilman calls 911 over 9 year old child saving trees

[butters]

this man calls 911 over ' a little black woman' saying he was scared and that she was wearing a hoodie.
this man is their neighbour, and didn't even recognise the 9 year old little girl out spraying the trees to protect them from lanternflies. Instead of walking outside and chatting with her, to see what she was spraying and why, he decides it warrants an emergency call using deliberate 'trigger' words well-recognised as effective in bringing a rapid response to what could be a dangerous situation. This child was doing ecological work, having learned about the dangers lantern flies pose to the trees... doing good for her immediate environment. What a cowardly, racist fuck this ex councilman is.

Joseph described how her neighbor, Gordon Lawshe, called the police on her 9-year-old daughter Bobbi Wilson on Oct. 22 while Bobbi was outside trying to kill spotted lanternflies. The insect is known to be a danger to trees and other plants—so much so that scientists have recommended a myriad of ways for the public to kill them.

Joseph said she received a recording of Lawshe’s 911 call from the Caldwell Police Department.

“‘There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she’s doing; it scares me though,’” Lawshe told police, according to Joseph.

“And [he] included that she’s wearing a hoodie,” she told the board meeting. “My 9-year-old daughter Bobbi had a hoodie on her person but did not have this hoodie on her head. … It is sickening and scary to hear my neighbor use triggering words that have resulted in the death of too many Black and brown children and adults at the hands of the police: Black, hoodie, ‘I’m scared.’ Those are triggered words.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...ck-girl-for-catching-lanternflies/ar-AA13VaWD

 

[Lazaran]

this man calls 911 over ' a little black woman' saying he was scared and that she was wearing a hoodie.
this man is their neighbour, and didn't even recognise the 9 year old little girl out spraying the trees to protect them from lanternflies. Instead of walking outside and chatting with her, to see what she was spraying and why, he decides it warrants an emergency call using deliberate 'trigger' words well-recognised as effective in bringing a rapid response to what could be a dangerous situation. This child was doing ecological work, having learned about the dangers lantern flies pose to the trees... doing good for her immediate environment. What a cowardly, racist fuck this ex councilman is.






https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...ck-girl-for-catching-lanternflies/ar-AA13VaWD

And MAGAts wonder why CRT is a thing.

 

[SubzeroGirl]

So very sad. Little kids having to suffer because of our intolerance as adults. The cycle continues.

 

[jaF0]

Yale honors the work of a 9-year-old Black girl whose neighbor reported her to police​

February 3, 2023 • Bobbi Wilson went on a mission to save New Jersey's trees, capturing spotted lanternflies. That frightened her neighbor, who called the cops. Now, her bug collection is part of a Yale museum.

 

[snailspace]

Seen from afar, this, "There's a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees on Elizabeth and Florence," Lawshe told the dispatcher, according to a call obtained by CNN.

Does not seem as outlandish as the attempt to portray it as