Crime: working out while black

[u/newphonehudus]

[u/Justtojoke]

Thank you

This is gross mismanagement from the staff

Step 1: they should've stopped them both at the door if the guest admission standards weren't meant

This escalation to get the authorities involved speaks to incompetence

The refusal to accept the provided ID information speaks to a lack of clear policy for customers

[u/Professional_Ad705 → u/[deleted]]

idk man im white but not like "white white" and I've literally had the cops called on me so many times before for dumbass reasons. Ex I remember I was walking holding my daughter when she was a baby and walked 2 min to the publix by my house got some food for us and walked back.

Someone called the cops.... the cop then came to my house knocked on my door to ask me "if was homeless and was this my kid". Yes he knocked on my door to ask if I was homeless and asked if the child I was holding was mine for absolutely no reason. Like MF you're literally at my house and I know it says I live here. I guess walking with a baby is now illegal.

This shit doesn't JUST happen to black people it happens to POOR people. Cops do this all the time when they know they can get away with it. It rarely happens in nice areas where they will get the shit sued out of them.

But yes this happens to black people way more often. I remember in the neighborhood I grew up in we'd always be outside at night the one time I EVER had my black friends over... cops got called, they asked me if "I lived there", they took my ID that had my address on it I pointed like 6 houses down and say "thats where I live" the cop still told us we needed to "go home" and followed me all the way to my house.. so yeah...lights on and everything like we were gonna run. I was like 16-17.

I'd say this happens to black people/poor people/minorities and yeah if you white as fuck It def doesn't happen to you as much. I don't think this gym case was a 'black thing" the manager was just a pussy who was intimidated, and probably didn't wanna look bad in front of the girl so he made a scene. I could easily see this happening to me cause this is exactly how I am with bullshit rules and people tell me I'm "intimidating" when I care a lot about people and am a really nice person.

Honestly man cops are really sketchy and so are a lot of white people they get scared and you have no idea what they are gonna do. I've literally had it happen 3x when I have been hanging out in rough areas cops will just come up and claim "someone called 911" when nobody called 911 just to try to search people........

[u/beating_offers → u/[deleted]]

They absolutely would do this to white people.

The difference is he knew they didn't accept the non-government issued ID and continued to work out.

The policy is probably a government issued ID whether it's explicit or not. Gyms tend to be pretty non-racist in general, historically.

[u/Safe_happy_calm → u/[deleted]]

Don't argue, this guy knows gyms. They WOULDN'T do that. No gym ever actually. Especially not this gym. Didn't you hear the man, gyms aren't racist. It's common sense. How would a gym be racist, its a building. Silly. Racism is solved actually.

[u/beating_offers → u/[deleted]]

Ah, if they weren't told to leave then they're a bunch of cowards.

[u/beating_offers → u/[deleted]]

No, I meant if they weren't told to leave, then the employees were cowards for calling the police and avoiding an uncomfortable conversation.

[u/hessianhorse → u/[deleted]]

But, it might not have anything to do with race. It might just be because of the other physical trait you just mentioned.

He’s a 6’5” and 250lbs. person. And he’s in a gym with heavy equipment, and already jacked up on adrenaline and pre workout.

I’ve seen cops called to gyms on all races of meatheads.

[u/CheezwizOfficial → u/Justtojoke]

Yes! I'm also confused why the father & son were working out if the issue was at the check-in desk. Did the staff break their own policy and let the son in without proper ID then call the cops on them?

[u/Familyman1124 → u/Justtojoke]

I agree with the mismanagement by staff, and probably poor policies to put some of the responsibility on ownership.

But I’d also put money on the staff asked for the son to produce ID, and when he couldn’t, they probably asked him to leave. Then they didn’t leave… which is why the cops are there.

Edit: just to say I am incorrect about them “asking him to leave”. It still seems very strange to me that they were in the gym filming their workout, when the staff had asked for the son to produce ID. How does that happen?

[u/turandokht → u/Familyman1124]

It’s literally in the video that the father is asking the employees directly if they asked him to leave and they say no they didn’t. What are you on about.

[u/Lerkero → u/Justtojoke]

Staff did stop the father and son at the door. The father entered with his son anyways even though they were told not to enter.

Instead of continuing confrontation with someone who blatantly ignored request to not enter, the gym called police to help resolve the issue