Encounter between Black teens and Beech Grove school board member stirs outrage

[Eugene]

Source: Indianapolis Star

Encounter between Black teens and Beech Grove school board member stirs outrage

John Tufts, Indianapolis Star
Wed, October 4, 2023 at 7:48 AM EDT·6 min read

On a Saturday in mid-August, three teenagers rode their bikes to the Beech Grove CVS Pharmacy on Main Street. The teens told their parents they wanted to buy candy — a bag of sweet and sour gummy worms one teen used his debit card to purchase.

Next they pedaled to Walgreens a block away on Albany Street. A white pickup soon parked outside.

Finding nothing they wanted to purchase, the teens walked past a Walgreens cashier and out the door. It was then they realized a man and a woman were watching them and snapping their photos with a cellphone.

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Days later, the teens learned someone had accused them of stealing. Neither CVS nor Walgreens called police to report them for theft, but their photos landed on the desk of the superintendent of Beech Grove City Schools.

The teens are Black and the couple in the pickup are white.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/encounter-between-black-teens-beech-114850611.html

[Bayard]

1. It just never ends

Especially when you're on a mission from god.

[2naSalit]

2. +1

This is why we have no mental health to speak of in our health care system. The crazies don't want to be found out and since they have the upper hand in all thing right now, they'll fight to the death to keep it as we can all see.