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01-09-2022, 01:34 PM
Ed Pilkington
Wed 31 Aug 2022 15.33 BST
“What you doing here, man?” the white police officer asked an African American man quietly watering flowers in a front garden in Childersburg, Alabama.
“Watering flowers,” was the man’s reply.
Two minutes later, the man, the Rev Michael Jennings, 56, a pastor at the local Vision of Abundant Life church, was put into handcuffs. Three minutes after that he was placed in a police vehicle, under arrest for “obstructing governmental operations”.
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He was told an anonymous neighbour had made a 911 call reporting “suspicious” activity outside the house of someone who had gone out of town.
“They say you are not supposed to be here,” the officer said.
“I’m supposed to be here,” Jennings replied. “I’m looking after their house while they’re gone, looking after their flowers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...l-jennings
Wed 31 Aug 2022 15.33 BST
“What you doing here, man?” the white police officer asked an African American man quietly watering flowers in a front garden in Childersburg, Alabama.
“Watering flowers,” was the man’s reply.
Two minutes later, the man, the Rev Michael Jennings, 56, a pastor at the local Vision of Abundant Life church, was put into handcuffs. Three minutes after that he was placed in a police vehicle, under arrest for “obstructing governmental operations”.
......
He was told an anonymous neighbour had made a 911 call reporting “suspicious” activity outside the house of someone who had gone out of town.
“They say you are not supposed to be here,” the officer said.
“I’m supposed to be here,” Jennings replied. “I’m looking after their house while they’re gone, looking after their flowers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...l-jennings
