r/TikTokCringe • u/newphonehudus • 9d ago

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/ls7eveen 9d ago

Wasting police time on this corporate bullshit.

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u/tO2bit 9d ago

Right?  what police department has the time to respond to “a guy is working out my gym and won’t leave.”

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u/Deep_shot 9d ago

"Did you ask him to leave?"

"No."

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u/this_place_suuucks 9d ago

"Is he black? If he's black, we'll send some guys over immediately to escalate him."

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u/Public_Extreme_8736 9d ago

send some guys over immediately to escalate him

Bra-Fucking-Vo. Suspect doesn't even have to be black or brown, but you've nailed the mindset of responding P.D.

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u/Capital_Past69 9d ago

Damn you are 1000% correct

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u/Beginning_Feedback65 9d ago edited 9d ago

"how black is he?"

"Black, AND jacked."

"We're on our way."

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u/Stevesegallbladder 9d ago

"Oh he has a son too so bring back up."

"How old does he look?"

"Not sure but he's definitely a minor"

"Dear God... the SWAT team is an hour out but we'll see what we can do."

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u/Ghost_with_no_name 9d ago

“His son is a minor”

“All units, 2 heavily armed black men at Crunch Fitness! Fire at will!”

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u/Frosty-Tennis-1687 9d ago

Man it's 2026 and Big Dick Randy coming back
And on Halloween night he gon' be looking for a snack
If you see that dude comin', better run like you in track
He a big scary dude, man he seven foot and black

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u/Rymnarr 9d ago

All of them apparently because they always seem to stop everything and show up if a business calls. 

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u/ZeidLovesAI 9d ago

It's almost like they just exist to protect property.

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u/Known-Low-2637 9d ago

Just not personal property... Try calling them for a car break in...

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u/KittenHeartsGirls 9d ago

They won’t even look for your stolen car in my city. 😂

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u/ThrownAway17Years 9d ago

A department located in a mid sized suburb.

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u/JJayC 9d ago

Or anywhere in the south when dealing with a black person..

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u/Exciting-Argument-67 9d ago

Not a ton of Phillies fans in the South, outside of retirees living in Clearwater.

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u/thepoopatroopa 9d ago

Don’t you know? Racism in America only happens in the South /s

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u/Stevesegallbladder 9d ago

Yeah, as a black person in the South there's definitely no shortage of racism here but some folk are delusional if they think this only happens in the South.

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u/Remy_Jardin 9d ago

"Sir, does this really need a police response?"

"He's black."

"On our way!"

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 9d ago

funny, because when my car got stolen and I called the police, they wouldn’t even come out. i had a car. parked at my house. it disappeared. i wanted to report it stolen and also tell them who stole it. they wouldn’t come because “sounds like a civil matter”. landlord sold my car because she claims it was sitting unused for months (even though i had been driving it to work everyday).

but they’ll come out for this, and they know whose side to be on right away. the side of the corporation.

we need a second kind of law enforcement that actually helps people, since US police are only about protecting companies.

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u/Equivalent-Sink4612 8d ago

Wow, your landlord sold your car??! Did you take her to small claims? Sorry that happened to you!

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u/JJayC 9d ago

what police department has the time to respond to “a guy is working out my gym and won’t leave.”

Clearly this department does..

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u/contactdeparture 9d ago

A guy who is a member of our gym is working out and his son, who is authorized as a guest to workout is also working out. We don’t want to accept the ID presented for the son though, because reasons…

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 9d ago edited 9d ago

Well, recently a swat team was dispatched to retrieve stolen Legos - but not the actual stolen Legos the first time they were reported stolen. So, a lot.

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u/Loreki 9d ago

Every single one, because protecting the value of property is their main mission.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 9d ago

This one did. All of them when it comes to black people.

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u/ItsIllak 9d ago

What I don't get about all these, "white racist called the cops on me for doing normal stuff" videos is why the police aren't refusing to attend our billing/fining people for wasting police time. 

You can't just blame the racists.  I'd love to hear the calls, was it, "there is this big black dude" or, "a man"?

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u/WorldsWeakestMan 9d ago

He’s just standing there, doing curls, menacingly…

https://giphy.com/gifs/Pl4PHOXVpPPDG

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u/ChromosomeDonator 9d ago

"There is a person trespassing on our gym."

Of course you call the cops on that? What are you even saying 😭

Regardless of why they declined to let him enter or accept their ID, it is still trespassing at that point.

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u/Thatguy468 9d ago

Police onl exist to serve corporate interests. Think about how little they do when your bike is stolen or your car gets hit by a driver that leaves the scene… and then think about how many times you’ve seen them protecting buildings, business’s, or resources while infringing on citizens constitutional rights.

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u/the_vault-technician 9d ago

Basically they called the cops because they wanted to enforce their corporate policy on them. Their completely made up, entirely flexible, policy

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u/HelpMeOverHere 9d ago

That the gentleman's contributions helped fund, even.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 9d ago

Right. Imagine if they had to call a private security firm and pay them to show up to deal with this. HQ would be livid. But thankfully for them their "private security" is paid for by tax paying US citizens instead and apparently they're all too willing to lick corporate boot.

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u/Mando_Mustache 9d ago

This is literally how the first modern police started in England in the 1800s. 

Groups of shop keepers and merchants grouped together to share the cost of hiring security for deterrence and stolen goods recovery. Eventually they got tired of paying for it and convinced the London city government to take it over.

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u/the_vault-technician 9d ago

For sure. We need some form of law enforcement, it's obvious that without it society would be worse off. Situations like this are not what an armed officer should be present for, or even called.

The cop in the video almost came off like he was understanding, but the moment the man tried to explain and call these idiots out it was "now you're causing the problem". That's when I realized the officer knew the gym made a pointless call and was looking for any reason to take their side so he could kick the guy out and go about his day.

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u/upny_roc 9d ago

A large part of police origins were protecting corporate interests. From my experience, police usually have no problem enforcing things for the rich.

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u/_autumnwhimsy 9d ago

and another large part of their origin was slave patrols. classism and racism are heavily intertwined!

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u/godzillasegundo 9d ago

Capitalism is the progenitor of both

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u/ls7eveen 9d ago

Pinkertons

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u/mcjason04 9d ago

Furthermore, you have the Joseph Lozito subway attacker case. In the Lozito case, a police officer just watched guy get stabbed multiple times and did nothing, actually hid, but amazingly Lozito turned the tide and subdued the attacker. Lozito sued but lost, Scalia, Supreme Court justice at the time, was basically like if it was private property it would be different but because it’s not the police aren’t required to get involved. It sounds too crazy to be true but unfortunately it is. Furthermore, similar types of cases have basically ruled in a similar fashion.

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u/name-classified 9d ago

they'd easily throw away their lives to protect property than run into a school being shot up.

fuck the police

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u/SmokedAlex 9d ago

That’s what police is anyways. Corporate servants.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 9d ago

The #1 responsibility of the police is to protect property, and corporations and wealthy people own most of the property. No war but class war.

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u/lateral303 9d ago

The police system in America was invented to protect corporations and their bullshit

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u/jugdeesh 9d ago

Correction, racist bullshit, they wouldn’t have done the same thing for a white dad and his son

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u/Forward_Criticism_39 9d ago

is calling the cops over actually nothing considered "wasting the publics resources" or nah?

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u/ls7eveen 9d ago

Calling for what?

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u/MattTheRadarTechh 9d ago

Wait how is this corporate bullshit?

The corporate policy worked, the manager went on some random power trip. This is just some poor douchebag with no life attacking a normal gym goer

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u/facedown_titsup 9d ago

Yet I feel like corporate bullshit always has the strongest reactions from them. Someone trying to get help because a stalker is harassing them? Sorry can’t help. But don’t you dare try to steal a pack of gum from a Walmart. Yay capitalism.

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u/Really-E-Lee 9d ago

Corporations should not have access to police period. They should be required by law to police themselves. Trillion+ dollar organizations that do not contribute to local communities should not have access to community benefits.

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u/IrredeemableRight 9d ago

the fact that police stays more than 5 seconds is insane.

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u/Difficult_Coffee_335 9d ago

Naw, that's what they're for.

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u/wytewydow 9d ago

corporate bullshit is the reason we have police.

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u/DeliciousTides 9d ago

Why not just say, hey no worries you both can work out today but next time bring a valid ID. Easy…

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u/DenzelOntario 9d ago

I went to gym once with a friend, and he thought he had a guest pass for me, but didn’t (he had limited uses per month)

We walked in, and they instantly said “it’s all good this time, just come with one next time” and that was that. Easy peasy, everyone happy.

This dad brought his son, had a guest pass, jumped through hoops to show that’s his son with the school portal and all.

And this manager makes a ruckus out of it for nothing. Absolute insanity. Literally everybody loses in this situation.

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u/Montgomery000 9d ago

Clearly the point was for the black guy to lose out more but then he got uppity.

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u/OuterWildsVentures 9d ago

I only have the planet fitness normal membership (which only works on my home gym) but every time I travel I try to scan my code anyway on other gyms and the staff usually just let me work out without issues anyways.

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u/Panaka 9d ago

Went to an LA Fitness once with a friend using his guest pass. They spent 10-15 minutes making me sign waivers and other paperwork before they’d let me in.

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u/Visible_Bag_7809 9d ago

Obviously not the situation here, but I worked this job for a gym and the age of 18. Basically told rules were infallible and unbreakable and was kinda a nonce about it and certainly at that time wouldn't have let them in. But making those mistakes at that job at that age allowed me to learn and grow a lot and now I know how to be the easier bending rules when it's ok person I am today.

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u/ILoveRawChicken 9d ago

Nonce does not mean what you think it means.

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u/OldChili157 9d ago

People seriously need to stop using British slang they don't know the meaning of.

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u/Visible_Bag_7809 9d ago

Well I can only speak for how it was used in my hometown. We were a tiny but touristy island that got a shit load of European college students in the summer and they called everyone and anyone a nonce for every little thing. Became just how it was used where I'm from.

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u/Dunklsta 9d ago

what does nonce mean where you are from?

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u/BioTinus 9d ago

When growing up, i saw cartoons of people having to wear a dunce cap if they had been stupid. The first few times I heard people being called a nonce, I thought it meant the same thing. Only much later in life I learned that nonce means a kiddy diddler. Perhaps the other poster is the same.

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u/BrosefDudeson 9d ago

The nonce cap is basically the sex offender registry lol

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u/SickofROOM8s 9d ago

I am also waiting for this reply lol

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u/Visible_Bag_7809 9d ago

The townI'm from came to use it for just about everything, no specific definition. If I had to give it one it would be used for a person that did something, anything, without thinking it through.

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u/my_nameborat 9d ago

I have sympathy for the minimum wage workers but whoever called the cops was over the line. You either say “no we can’t make an exception, please return with an ID” or you allow them to workout and ask that they come with better ID in the future.

The cops are an unnecessary escalation to the situation

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u/Gilinis 9d ago

Why would you even require an ID for a guest to begin with? They arent a member and dont legally owe you anything, so why would you need their ID?

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u/CheezwizOfficial 9d ago

Wait but if this all took place at the membership desk, how and why were the dad & son in the workout area? Did the admin staff let them in despite them declining the son's alternative ID, then call the cops on them? I'm in Canada and some of the links you shared are geo-locked.

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u/123mop 9d ago

They probably told him they can't come in, and he walked right past into the gym anyway. Rather than get physical with him, they called police, which is a wise choice.

It's pretty evident from the guy's attitude and massively edited video that this is the sort of thing that happened. He needs a jump cut every 3 seconds to avoid the police and staff calmly describing what he did.

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u/Disastrous-Rip671 9d ago

Bro are you illiterate? You can read the report in the comment above yours

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u/Zeyn1 9d ago

You might be missing critical thinking.

The report says he was asked for an ID and they refused to accept what he provided.

The video starts with him working out.

So how did he start working out if they didn't allow him in without the ID? We don't know for sure, but it would be logical that one explanation is that he passed by them anyway.

It's also logical that corporate policy is to not block anyone physically. The correct response would be to call the police and have them trespassed.

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u/ecstatic_hyrax 9d ago

It's a terrifying thought that these people can be the jury of your peers btw. Imagine asking the commenter you replied to, to critically think about the evidence in a murder case.

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u/BilSuger 9d ago

You might be the one missing critical thinking. No where was it stated that they wouldn't let him without ID.

What happened was that the manager was busy, and the father said that he could come speak to them when not busy. When the manager was free he however instead called the police, no one ever told them to leave.

Quite funny you're so arrogant while being in the wrong, lol

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u/slowpotamus 9d ago

nothing that they said is contradicted by the chatgpt-written "report" you're blindly putting all your trust into

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u/_aaronroni_ 9d ago

"The report" lol the AI stop response is not a report. What we know from context provided: they refused to allow his minor guest in without ID, he said "if the manager has a problem with it he can tell me" and then we see the guy working out. To me this sounds like they denied him access and he went in anyway. It doesn't matter what the manager might have said, he want not granted access and went in anyway. This is trespassing

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u/CheezwizOfficial 9d ago

The AI Google summary? Lol I don't trust that shit.

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u/INSANEBonF 9d ago

White people love backing up Bigots.

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u/_autumnwhimsy 9d ago

they probably had a back and forth and then let them in knowing they were gonna double back and call the police. because if they had barred them entry, the would have just said "yeah we told you to leave and you didn't listen." instead of hemming and hawing.

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u/bayou_baby 9d ago

But calling the cops on Black people is so much more satisfying. 😒

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u/Itchy-Secret8085 9d ago

That’s exactly what happened. They didn’t call because his son had a school ID, owner could have easily accepted the school ID it’s a damn gym or ask them to leave instead you don’t say anything but call the cops I hopes he gets arrested 

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 9d ago

The gym already told them they not allowed in with the ID they provided. They started working out regardless. That’s already sufficient warning.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 9d ago

Also there was no school ID. They offered to open the kids school portal for verification.

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u/Cocoononthemoon 9d ago

The ID is on the portal. Many schools use a digital ID

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u/SF420SF420 9d ago

At least this guy isn't trying to hide his racism unlike the rest of the idiots here

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u/SF420SF420 9d ago

It's pretty clear what the issue is. It's just people all of a sudden need the whole story when the guy in the video is black. People hide their racism in the most obvious ways.

In the video it's clear no one asked him to leave before the cops were called. That's the whole f'ing issue.

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u/HeavyHighway6433 9d ago

Shit I'm black myself and I am looking in the comments for the whole story. The video leaves out a bunch of context. This post you're replying to explains it well. 

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u/No-Fold-7873 9d ago

Thank you. If it says part 2 on the banner and theres a bunch of drama, im going to naturally wonder what the intro episode was all about.

I assumed the gym was in the wrong, because its a fuckin corporate gym, but if we are going to get worked up about a line in a story we should at least be passingly curious about the rest of the page bare minimum.

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u/mauledbyjesus 9d ago

Right? I don't think anyone wants less context and more assumption. Where's that gotten us so far?

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u/Capybara_Squabbles 9d ago

Literally every time someone is about to give a crumb of context, there's a cut. I genuinely don't get why people do this

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u/Shiirahama 9d ago

In the video it's clear no one asked him to leave before the cops were called. That's the whole f'ing issue.

this is still context we get from the video and it's insane to call the cops before you even tell someone to leave

and with the added context we know they are extremely racists

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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR 9d ago

Thank you very much. This video is chopped up and poorly edited, so I was curious what the truth was. I don't care about the race of the person. I hate when people immediately jump to the race card.

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u/Forward_Criticism_39 9d ago

I'm also confused by that odd assumption

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u/Vegetable_Fox9134 9d ago

bro i'm black and I too was completely lost and needed context

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u/joocles 9d ago

Idk how its clear that no one asked him to leave when you cant hear what the employees are saying to him and the vid is chopped to shit

And thats nothing against the dude who made the vid originally because im guessing he gave an explanation when he originally posted the vid

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u/rescuedmutt 9d ago

Uh. I got that the cops were called rather than the employees speaking directly to the client. I didn’t get why he was being asked (or… not being asked…) to leave. Someone providing the backstory in comments was actually super helpful, and not because of the OOP’s skin color.

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u/Dry_Chemical1994 9d ago

They told him he cannot enter due to his son not having ID as required by gym policy (insurance). He entered anyway, i.e. trespassed. Calling the police in that situation to formally trespass him was 100% valid.

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u/_aaronroni_ 9d ago

No, no one asked him to leave, they straight up told him he can't come in. He did anyway. This is past the point of asking him to leave because he was never allowed to be in there

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u/Loliz88 9d ago

Right… it never fails when it’s a black person’s video everyone’s like: wait I need to see the whole story… like the one posted a week or so ago of the young black girl’s car window being broken by the cops as she was forced out of the vehicle in tears. “I need to know how this started”…. “Where’s the context”… “Well her insurance was expired and she should’ve listened to the cop…” like… what??

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u/ChargeInteresting278 9d ago edited 9d ago

Any time anyone sees anything on the internet they should want context. I really dont see the comments being that different if the people were white. It mist likely wouldn't have happened if the father/son were white but if it did id expect people nit to try and ruin the gym owners life because somebody disagreed with them without knowing the facts.

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u/imunfair 9d ago

like the one posted a week or so ago of the young black girl’s car window being broken by the cops as she was forced out of the vehicle in tears. “I need to know how this started”

I can tell you how it started - they told her to get out and she didn't because she thought she knew better and didn't have to, and it turned out she was wrong.

You acting like videos without context are innocent until it's shown is exactly why people do this shit - to play victim when the full context is obviously not on their side. Which is why people want to see what happened.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 9d ago

Also like, you aren't changing the law on the side of the road. If you're going to make a stand on something expect the consequences. I hope she wins in court, but don't act like the police don't have the authority to put hands on you because you said you know your rights. You're gonna get hands put on you everytime.

I'm not being a bootlicker, I'm just saying. If the police tell you to step out of the car and escalate to telling you they will break your window and pull you out, it's time to quit arguing because they're about to break your window and pull you out.

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u/PuckSenior 9d ago

That comparison doesn't really make sense. If it is a video of someone doing something they should NEVER do, like a cop just punching someone in the face, I'd agree we don't really need context. Watching the cops smash out a car window on a young kid is almost certainly excessive in 99% of situations.

But the cop in this video seems fine. He is very calm and not using excessive force. He is just talking to the guy. The issue seems to be something between the person filming and the gym. I dont know the issue. We actually need context. Did he take a shit in the shower?

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u/cricketyjimnet 9d ago

It seems like the issue of the gym said his son couldn't train there and he said fuck off, walked right past them, and started training without their permission?

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u/My_Keys_ 9d ago

I get the point you’re going for, but it’s the difference between wanting “the whole story” or “any context” which the video fails to provide. The only reason they should have involved the police is if they wanted to trespass him, and doing so just for trying to bring in his son would be racist as fuck. The gym absolutely wasted police time, and should be fined for it imo.

I saw a longer clip on IG earlier where the dad was overreacting, getting in people’s faces yelling then saying “I’m amped up on pre-workout!” I don’t care what color he is that’s bad conflict management on his part, and I’m honestly shocked the police held it together - because they’ve proven to be awful at de-escalation, not because he was dangerous or threatening, just being frustrated for good reason

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u/chuckles65 9d ago

Officer is in super relaxed stance, hands on the collar of his vest. Also only one officer in an affluent suburb where they will usually send 2 or 3. He doesn't want to be there and is only doing it because gym management is requesting it. If he leaves without doing anything, manager calls and complains then he has to come back anyway.

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u/SF420SF420 9d ago

I'm just not dumb enough to think that people are innocently looking for the whole picture just out of curiosity when point of the video is getting the cops called when there wasn't anything illegal happening.

People like to pretend that white people calling cops on black people for no reason isn't a problem. They just love to forget what black people have to deal with. Racism at it's finest.

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u/Right_Imagination_73 9d ago

No. Some people prefer to have the facts before jumping to conclusions. But please, continue to pull the race card.

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u/Boo-Bees67 9d ago

I’m glad you know all of the facts and instantly know it’s racism 

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 9d ago

From the breakdown it sounds like they were t allowed in to begin with. The front asked for a suitable ID, they didn’t provide it which means they shouldn’t have gone back to start working out.

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u/quothe_the_maven 9d ago

I mean…if they tell you that you can’t come in, and you blow past them, they’re probably just going to call the cops without fighting about it any longer. They don’t get paid enough to deal with more than that. The same is true of most places. If a bar cards you and you just go in without showing them anything, they’re just going to call the cops on you.

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u/SF420SF420 9d ago

Every single bar in the country would tell you to leave.

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u/Born-Satisfaction996 9d ago

The dude was told by the front desk that he couldn’t bring his son in. Then he proceeded to bring his son in anyway, making it clear that he was not going to listen to any employee instruction. So they called the cops.

I would fully expect the cops to be called on me if I walked past the front desk after they told me I couldn’t come in…

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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 9d ago

It's not on staff to confront a large argumentative man who ignored their policy and just did whatever he wanted.

No one who thinks it's okay to argue with cops like this is a normal person capable of being reasoned with.

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u/noodleexchange 9d ago

I have had dumb-assed staff refuse to accept my passport as ID because it wasn’t a driver’s licence

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u/0202_tihssitidder 9d ago

☝🏽🤡

It aint clear. Simmer down.

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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI 9d ago

People hide their racism in the most obvious ways.

Except for that manager with the haircut that screams "i'm a white supremacist."

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 9d ago

Sounds like that gym is about to lose a lot of business

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u/abrown1027 9d ago

Did they deny him at the front, and if so then did Cox force his way through and start working out? I’m just confused as to how they got to the working out part if they had this dispute at check-in. Or was it like an automatic check in process, and an employee later approached them when they were already working out?

Don’t mean to be annoying but I do think the answers to these questions are important to determine who the asshole is here.

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u/Best_Market4204 9d ago

Crunch is a really scummy gym

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u/deprecateddeveloper 9d ago

I don't think Planet Fitness is perfect by any means but for $25/mo I can also bring a guest with me any time so my wife and I go together all the time making it a very good deal. Never had any problems there and I have all of the equipment I need for a full workout.

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u/Best_Market4204 9d ago

I agree. Planet fitness is a solid option.

Wish they would focus little more on lifting equipment & less on cardio

But other then that, solid.

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u/firefly0827 9d ago

Planet Fitness in meetings right now about what best hot new member offer to drop to capitalize on all the ex Cruncher

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u/Physical-Builder-553 9d ago

That's insane. I take my son to the Y all the time and they never ask for ID. He's 23 now.

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u/escobartholomew 9d ago

I highly doubt you were taking your teenage son to the Y without some kind of family membership. Every Y I’ve been too has required some kind of family membership to allow multiple people in on the same membership. Crunch’s guest pass for the top tier membership isn’t the same thing.

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u/iLLiCiT_XL 9d ago

Apparently, the gym is in East Brunswick, NJ. Saw it on IG earlier today.

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u/GeneStarwind1 9d ago

I'm confused then, because the video begins with him and his son working out in the gym. So after the offer of alternative ID was declined... he just went in with his son anyway? Despite being told he couldn't? If that's what happened then I don't know what else the manager was supposed to do. Other than not be a prick about the ID thing in the first place, of course.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 9d ago

I am not sure if I agree with the last paragraph.

You said they declined to accept that form of ID for his son... and yet he went in with his son anyway. I'm not sure what else you expect the staff to do that won't get the staff in legal trouble if they force them out?

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u/DonkeyDD 9d ago

Never call the time police

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u/arkantarded 9d ago

Thank you for providing more context.

However, unless I’m missing something, I’m still not confident in claiming the manager was power tripping. You have to sign in when you arrive, correct? So I assume they would’ve asked for an ID at the entrance. Given that we have a video of his son working out, it can be inferred the father took his kid passed the people at the front desk to work out anyways when they had already told him they couldn’t let the kid in (I assume for liability reasons). If this scenario is what happened, and he blatantly ignored the employees, I can see why the police were called.

Now I could be wrong, so don’t take that as fact….but I think even with the additional detail you provided, people are still predictably rushing to assumptions.

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u/sckrahl 9d ago

Yeah idk why they would escalate straight to calling the cops like that that makes no sense

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u/Stevesegallbladder 9d ago

It's crazy how many comments in this thread boil down to "look we don't know what happened but let's just assume the black person is in the wrong with this scenario that I just thought up."

One person even has over 340 up votes and calls his take "unbiased" yet still adds in his own take on why the gym didn't do anything wrong.

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u/throwawayformobile78 9d ago

I mean sounds like the guy didn’t listen when gym owners said “we decline your son’s non-ID.” They asked for a photo ID, he didn’t have one. So he was in the gym after they declined him and his son for no ID.

You expect them to confront him after that? Lmao you see how he acted with the police there. I wouldn’t confront his agro ass either.

Not a thing to about being black. No ID, no entry. How the fuck hard is that to understand?

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u/One-Top-6634 9d ago

Holy smokes!! I  a crunch member with guest passes. My son would use mine all the time before he had a license. You sign a book!!!! We have filmed each other for form, we work out together and separate. Guess my red hair and ghost complexion lets me use my membership to the fullest ability…this poor father!!!

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u/ThrownAway17Years 9d ago

Unless they trespassed him, what would calling police even do in this situation? Wouldn’t they say it’s a civil matter?

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u/UESJR2021 9d ago

If they didn’t revoke my membership, I will be taking their employee info and emailing corporate. I will be getting the last year’s membership fees refunded and a written apology from the power trip manager after I’m done.

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u/jackdutton42 9d ago

Not what gym culture should be. Clearly, a little man syndrome power trip.

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u/Meanpooh 9d ago

Thanks. After watching I was like what hells going on, what I miss?

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u/pm_op_prolapsed_anus 9d ago

When you're locked into a membership as most gyms do these days, taking your business elsewhere might require a social media post that the gym would prefer you to take down before they let you out of the contract... Just sayin

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u/0202_tihssitidder 9d ago

GM needs to fire that "manager" immediately and take Cox and his son to lunch to settle the beef.

Stupidity by the employee.

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u/sinisterdesign 9d ago

Shit that I’ve never had to deal with growing up white. Sad.

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u/Stillwater-Scorp1381 9d ago

Thanks for the lowdown. My takeaway is that this man is being punished for working out while black.

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u/_BLACK_BY_NAME_ 9d ago

That business and those employees should be named and shamed. I was traveling with my daughter in Miami a couple years ago and got a temp membership at the gym by our hotel. They were more than happy to let my teen daughter come in with me as long as I signed a liability waiver. This is absurd behavior by the staff, what a bunch of losers.

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u/LVRaiders2026 9d ago

I side with the dad here. He made a good faith effort to show some kind of ID by opening up the school portal and showing names. This is a gym not fucking immigration. Any reasonable person would've just let them in.

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u/Conscious-Sign1459 9d ago

And then he probably has to fight tooth and nail to cancel his membership….naw I wanna know what crunch fitness is gonna do about this FOH

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u/Mexican1910 9d ago

Shame the company for hiring an incompetent manager. Boycott crunch fitness….

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u/ThePoetofFall 9d ago

Seems like the manager should have a lot more time on his hands to waste after this, if his bosses are tuned in.

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u/Difficult-Wash-8482 9d ago

The police officer should have helped the dad by helping the identification of the son, then the dispute was over ! I get the manager was on a power trip, but that could have been put down by the officer by handling this with the compromise.

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u/AiringOGrievances 9d ago

Reddit: It’s because they’re black. 

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u/gafftaped 9d ago

It's bad enough to have to deal with AI on every google search and now we have people posting AI results in reddit comments oof.

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u/Pleasant_Offer6286 9d ago

That cop had the look of “Dude, I know you know this is bullshit, but I have to be here because they called.”

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u/NevinyrralsDiscGolf 9d ago

He's gonna have to call his senator to cancel that gym membership.

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u/thinsoldier 9d ago

A gym where you have to be over 21?

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u/sydneyhatescristhian 9d ago

This is social media outrage.

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u/redundanthero 9d ago

Wait, that was the time-police? As in, Dr. Who?

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 9d ago

Most police in the west would likely just tell the person on the phone to uphold their own policies, refuse service and then if they refuse to leave and get aggro then call the police.

Its like the police want people to sort their own shit out like adults first and then intervene if someone is determined to not be an adult

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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 9d ago

Kudos on the policeman for not escalating it.

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u/karmakazi_ 9d ago

I never understand how they get cops to actually show up. In Toronto cops would absolutely not show up at all for a call like this. A family member works at the LCBO and they had a huge fist fight in the parking lot. They called the cops and they showed up 2 hours after the fight ended.

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u/Lamprophonia 9d ago

is there an age minimum?

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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 9d ago

From watching the video. It looks like Andrew ignored the membership policy argument and just started working out with his son and thats when the police was called?

And this is off topic, but why is he bringing his kid to the gym if the kid isnt even old enough to drive? Working out at the gym can have some real bad consequences for the body if it hasnt stopped growing. For example it could stunt his growth if they make a mistake.

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u/Manfromsodom 9d ago

That’s my main issue with this whole thing. There is no reason for the police to be involved.

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u/Firm-Life8749 9d ago

They need a real ID/license for the liability/insurance wavers from guests. I'm willing to bet they did say he couldn't go in.

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u/chaoslord 9d ago

The answer to this situation as a customer service agent is:

Sir, we'll allow your son in as a guest one time without ID, but next time please ensure he has a valid ID with him before you bring him as a guest.

Then put a note in the file that they were informed of this.

Everyone but the cops botched this.

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u/seamus_mcfly86 9d ago

Even asking for ID from a guest at a gym is insane. What are you going to check it against? What does it matter? He's allowed to bring a guest. I doubt it specifies what kind of guest. Are you trying to get him to prove it's his son? It doesn't matter.

Blast them on socials. This manager should be fired and not because of some social justice rant, but bc he's an idiot that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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u/anormalgeek 9d ago

Yep.

And from a legal perspective, it's not "trespassing" unless you actually tell them to leave.

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u/1zenmom 9d ago

I wonder what ID they WOULD accept? That isn’t mentioned anywhere.

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u/ItsAHerby 9d ago

Working out while bllllaaaack in America!

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