quote:Six members of a family were arrested at The Mall at Wellington Green in an incident that began benignly enough over a pair of droopy jeans but ended like a chaotic scene out of the Cops TV show.
An estimated 20 deputies, two canine units and a police helicopter swarmed the area surrounding the mall's food court, shutting down roads, all to arrest a 52-year-old man, his 50-year-old wife and four other relatives, ages 16 to 20, Thursday evening.
posted 30 December 2007 03:26 PM
Cripes, I saw the names and immediately concluded that they were a Haitian family (lots of Haitian people in my neighbourhood and my tenants' association).
Not that I want to see people my age in arse-revealing jeans (and that is more a US-thing, I have never seen any middle-aged Haitian-Montrealers dressed like that; they are most often impeccably, tastefully dressed people who take a great deal of pride in their appearance) - and the kids are like any kids, wanting to be peacocks, and of course identifying with all the African diaspora in the Americas, from the US to Brazil.)
It seems fairly obvious that this is a racist incident; there is no shortage of badly-dressed people in any frigging US mall.
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posted 30 December 2007 03:39 PM
quote:"His pants were down below his butt. No one goes to the mall and wants to see the crack of someone's butt.", (said Palm Beach County sheriffs Lt. Jay Hart)
That's strange, the last shopping mall I visited had 40-foot high posters of nearly nude women modeling lingerie...
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posted 30 December 2007 03:40 PM
lagatta wrote:
quote: I have never seen any middle-aged Haitian-Montrealers dressed like that; they are most often impeccably, tastefully dressed people who take a great deal of pride in their appearance)
And when they are not and they don't, they are still perfectly within their constitutional rights not to be stereotyped...
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posted 30 December 2007 01:41 PM
I suppose it could be worse, they could have been tasered.
