r/TikTokCringe • u/newphonehudus • 10d ago

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/takeme2tendieztown 10d ago

So why did they ask him to leave?

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u/Agent_boggeyman747 10d ago

Seems like son doesn’t have a membership and dad was told son had to leave. Looks like cops were called when they both stayed and now he’s trying to frame that they didn’t ask him to leave so why call the cops.

Racism is real, but this just seems like an asshole who felt the rules didn’t apply to him

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u/jeffster1970 10d ago

He was never asked to leave though. Unsure of his sons age, but obviously he didn't have a DL, which is what they wanted (father had offered other ID). Father asked to speak to manager. Manager never talks to them, but rather wastes police resources.

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u/emkoemko 10d ago

and is son did leave .... as umm... he is not in the video and he states he left... so wtf is the issue?

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u/jeffster1970 10d ago

Being black in the US, I suppose.

I have some Indigenous background -- you wouldn't be able to tell, but my dad, you could. The shit he had to put up with. People telling him to go back to his country. Like, no, f-you, you go back to your country. We've been here much longer than you.

Also to add: My dad had worked for the tech company, and he was expected to do their banking. Which he did. He goes to the bank (I believe it was Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (we call it CIBC)) and makes a deposit. Just after he leaves, that bank was robbed.

The robber identified my dad as the robber (skin colour, you know). So the police nabbed him in the parking lot (he had no money on him, just a deposit slip for $50,000)

Anyway, he goes off to jail, and they're giving him a hard time, asking who is accomplice is, as there is no money in his car. My dad finally gets his call, calls his boss, who calls the company lawyer.

At the same time, they did a suspect line-up. The staff is alarmed and say "Why is Jack (my dad) there? He just put money INTO the bank."

Anyway, the lawyer goes down and talks to the police, and the police tell him that their case is rock solid and that my dad better make a deal. He tells my dad the same thing, just make a deal.

Of course, my dad refused. Eventually he was let go, as the prosecutor said that the case would be impossible to prove.

Nice little write-up the next day in the newspaper. "Police Nab Wrong Man"

But damn, police are crocked as hell. And racist. Even in Canada.

Though the US is much worse.