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Black Family Fires Contractor Who Shows Up To Job With Confederate Flag On Truck
A black family fired an in- dependent contractor they had hired for a job after he drove to their home with a giant Confederate flag affixed to his truck.
Allison and Zeke Brown of Atlanta, Georgia hired the man, whose name is Michael, to replace the brakes on their golf cart. When he arrived at their home on Saturday, an enor- mous rebel flag was attached to his truck.
“Hi, you know what, I do apologize, I know you’ve come from a very long way, but we’re going to use some- one else,” Allison, 40, a ra- diation therapist, tells Michael, as captured in a video on her Ring app.
“She’s upset with the flag,” explains Zeke, 48.
A Georgia contractor named Michael in Georgia arrived at the home of a black family with a Confederate flag on his truck.
“No, I’m beyond upset with the flag,” corrects Alli-
son.
Michael offers to re-
move the flag, but Allison says, “No, you don’t need to take it down. You can con- tinue to believe what you need to believe, sir. But no, I cannot pay you for your serv- ices. Thank you, have a good
day.”
Thousands watched the
Ring footage and noted Alli- son’s decorum, much like Craig Brooks, a Holiday Inn Express employee in Austin, Texas, whose polite rejection, “It’s above me now,” to a customer who called him the n-word, went viral last month.
African American Teens Say They Were Handcuffed, Attacked By K-9 At Alabama Mall
Cameron Robinson, 16, speaks during a news conference about accusations of racial profiling at the Shoppes at Bel Air mall in Mobile, Alabama.WPMI NBC 15
The attorney for a group of five African Americans plans to file a lawsuit after the youths said they were racially profiled, handcuffed and one bitten by a dog while shop- ping at a mall in Mobile, Ala- bama.
Attorney L. Chris Stewart said at a news con- ference Monday that the youths, who range in age from 15 to 20, were at The Shoppes at Bel Air late last month to buy clothes for the Fourth of July holiday when they were approached by a mall security K-9 officer.
Stewart said the officer, who is employed by the secu- rity company Allied Univer- sal, got out of his car with his hand on his gun and immedi- ately went "into attack mode."
The officer shoved "the boys against the wall" and handcuffed them as officers with the Mobile Police De- partment arrived to provide backup, Stewart said.
Allied Universal said in a statement that its security of- ficer and an officer with the Mobile Police Department were responding to a report of "a fight in progress at the mall's entrance."
"We assisted the Mobile police officer in helping to de- tain an individual who was
uncooperative and physically resisted police orders," a spokesperson for the com- pany said.
Stewart said the group was playing around and chas- ing each other "like every other teenager" does.
According to Stewart, when Cameron Robinson, 16, accused officers of racial profiling, the mall security of- ficer grabbed him by the neck and slammed him on his head. The officer then let his K-9 out of the car and the dog attacked Robinson, biting him on the arm. Stewart said the teen also suffered a head injury from being slammed.
"The Mall at Bel Air tried to kill five young boys mentally, and one physically," Stewart told reporters.
Attorney Justin Mil-ler,
who is also representing the teens, compared the use of the K-9 to when police officers used dogs to attack African Americans during the Civil Rights era.
“You have kids here with dogs being sicced on them like it’s 1957,” Miller said. “It’s ridiculous that this is still hap- pening in 2019 in Mobile, Ala- bama. It’s ridiculous that it’s happening anywhere, but it’s definitely ridiculous to be hap- pening in a mall in Mobile, Al- abama.”
Body Parts Found In Gator After Florida Man Discovered Dead
FORT MEADE, Fla. (AP) — Officials are investigating the death of a man discov- ered floating in a Florida canal with some of his re- mains found inside an alliga- tor.
The Ledger reports that a person found the body float- ing west of Fort Meade and saw an alligator had parts of it in its mouth. The victim was identified as 45-year-old Michael Ford II.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission trapped and killed the alliga- tor to perform a necropsy,
which revealed that one of Ford's hands and one of his feet were in the gator's stom- ach.
An autopsy revealed Ford
had other injuries caused by the gator and apparently drowned, though an official cause of death has yet to be determined.
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