Mushmouth
10-18-2018, 07:40 AM
Robin Anderson, 20, was sitting in her car at Bayshore Town Center, early for a job interview, when a Glendale police squad car slammed into her driver’s side door.
Glendale police had been alerted to a series of robberies at cellphone stores in Milwaukee, Brookfield, Mequon and Wauwatosa, according to the civil rights complaint. They had been told to be on the lookout for four African-American males in a black Hyundai Elantra. The notice also listed specific license plate numbers.
Anderson was parallel parked, with cars on either side of hers, in front of a cellphone store near Applebee’s restaurant, where she was scheduled to interview for a job as a server. She was early, so the door of the restaurant was locked.
Anderson’s car was a different model Hyundai, and her plates didn’t match the suspicious ones, the complaint says. Also, no women were alleged to have been involved in the robberies, and none of the crimes had occurred in Glendale.
“The only thing Anderson had in common with the thieves is that she is also African-American,” according to the suit, filed by attorney Mark Thomsen of Gingras, Cates & Wachs. “Had Anderson been white this would not have happened.”
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/15/bayshore-arrest-woman-accuses-glendale-police-racial-profiling/1602473002/
Glendale police had been alerted to a series of robberies at cellphone stores in Milwaukee, Brookfield, Mequon and Wauwatosa, according to the civil rights complaint. They had been told to be on the lookout for four African-American males in a black Hyundai Elantra. The notice also listed specific license plate numbers.
Anderson was parallel parked, with cars on either side of hers, in front of a cellphone store near Applebee’s restaurant, where she was scheduled to interview for a job as a server. She was early, so the door of the restaurant was locked.
Anderson’s car was a different model Hyundai, and her plates didn’t match the suspicious ones, the complaint says. Also, no women were alleged to have been involved in the robberies, and none of the crimes had occurred in Glendale.
“The only thing Anderson had in common with the thieves is that she is also African-American,” according to the suit, filed by attorney Mark Thomsen of Gingras, Cates & Wachs. “Had Anderson been white this would not have happened.”
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/15/bayshore-arrest-woman-accuses-glendale-police-racial-profiling/1602473002/