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Related: About this forumBlack Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Home
Black Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Homehttp://reason.com/blog/2018/10/04/black-man-cuffed-own-property-moving-tv
A black military veteran is calling foul after Kansas police handcuffed him on his own property. His infraction? Moving into his new home.
Karle Robinson, 61, can understand why a Tonganoxie police officer was suspicious in the first place. It was past 2 a.m. in the morning, and he was trying to move a flat-screen TV into his house. What Robinson doesn't get is why, after offering to retrieve documentation proving it was really his house, he was treated like a criminal.
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Black Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Home (Original Post)
Odoreida
Oct 2018
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abbeyco
(1,562 posts)1. Because Kansas & white cops nt
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Here let me prove its my house. Nope we already don't think so
Nitram
(24,780 posts)3. Something must change.
marble falls
(62,556 posts)4. He was suspicious because he was carrying furniture into the house?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)5. Black people can't have houses in that neighborhood
The KKK neighborhood watch report would have said something about it.