This forum appreciates facts, I think.
And comments like this, not so much.
I’m sure she set it all up. Right…
Perhaps those of us who are white can tell all the tales of the times we were in college, or our kids were in college, and they fell asleep and someone called the cops. We must have quite a few stories, cbreeze, if this is a normal non-racist thing that happens to white people too. Has that happened to anyone here? It hasn’t happened to me, to my white siblings, to my white husband, to my white child. And we sometimes fall asleep.
I once slept an entire night in a dorm lounge without being bothered by police… because this is NOT a normal thing.
I am white, and I would be just as pissed off if it happened to me while I was trying to write a paper.
I like this from the comments section of the linked article, referring to the woman that called the cops: “Was her sister recently taking a tour of Colorado State University’s campus?”
Sure you can have another viewpoint–just don’t expect not to be called for the ridiculousness of it.
I used to fall asleep in at least 3 different classes in college. I also fell asleep in a study carrel in the library twice (it was awful, my arms fell asleep and I stopped doing it after the second time).
No one ever called security or even commented to me on it.
I also used to spend hours and hours in the lounge, hogging the tv. I was too poor to be able to afford cable. No one ever commented on that either, aside from asking me to catch them up on the soaps they missed.
But, I’m not a minority so I guess it’s allowed?
Lots of years in school. Lots of random naps in various places- including a few restaurants/coffee houses. No cop calls.
A friend of mine is a museum docent and has an ongoing online photo album called “sleeping in museums”. She hasn’t called any cops on the museum nappers.
Honestly, if the student was worried, couldn’t she find the RA?
@Trixy34 What are you trying to say? If what happened to you?
I’m not familiar with Yale, but at my school I think it actually is against dorm rules to sleep in lounges of locked buildings and I’ve heard of RAs checking to make sure kids sleeping at night were residents of the building. If there is racism here, I think it lies more with the student calling the police and not the police reaction which was probably just following protocol in verifying that the student was in fact a student allowed to be in the dorm. For example, as a freshman student at my school, you do not have access to upperclassmen dorms. I have to be let in by a resident of that building and if I was asleep in the lounge by myself and someone complained, I would be most likely be questioned as well.
^^ Please see post #13 regarding Yale and napping.
I would be annoyed if someone called the police on me under these circumstances, but she didn’t help herself by refusing to show the police her ID. That may have contributed to the 15 minutes. The fact that she had keys doesn’t mean she belonged in the building. It could be that someone had lent her their keys, which is probably against the rules.
One of my parents’ neighbors called the police on me once when I came home while they were on a trip. I didn’t have any ID on me but luckily I was able to show the officers a picture of me mounted on the wall.
- Couple tries to buy money order with CASH and grocery manager calls cops. This happened recently.
These stories bring back memories of Harvard Prof. Henry Gates being arrested after a neighbor called police about a black man ‘breaking into’ a home next door. It was Prof. Gates’ home.
We have made very little progress as a nation toward racial equality. It’s very dispiriting.
The article about the guy trying to get a money order at a grocery store does not say the manager called the cops. It says the guy tried to use a debit card, but presented an out-of-state ID, and the clerk refused to sell the money order, citing fraud concerns and telling the guy he needed to bring cash. But then when the guy’s girlfriend showed up with cash, the clerk still refused to sell the money order, which the guy needed for his rent. This is bad enough.
In the Florida incident it does seem that the guy was an equal opportunity jerk:
“The marshal shooed some graduates with his hand. A white woman flashed a “rock on” sign. A black man walked on stage slowly. A black woman got low for a dance move. They all are shooed.One Asian woman stopped onstage to take a selfie. The university representative placed his hand behind her and pushed.”
More African American were shooed and manhandled because many were engaging in what seems to be the culturally important practice of “strolling”. Why anybody would want to stop this delightful practice which has to liven up an utterly boring graduation ceremony I’ll never know.
Glad the university apologized and said it was going to stop the interference with these celebrations in the future.
@“Cardinal Fang” the story does say the cops were called which is why I posted it.