A White Man Called Police On A Black Woman Who Was Using A Neighborhood Pool

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrymp...ccess-idadam?utm_term=.uuoRyR1q2z#.sqkqnqV15N

The man wanted the woman to show him her ID, but police verified she had a valid access card for the pool. He has since been dubbed #IDAdam.

Police were called in North Carolina Wednesday after a white man confronted a black woman about using a neighborhood swimming pool, prompting allegations of racial profiling and a backlash on social media. The confrontation also follows a string of incidents across the country in which white people have reported law-abiding people of color in everyday life.

The North Carolina incident reportedly happened in Winston-Salem after a white man asked Jasmine Edwards, who is black, for her ID while using a neighborhood pool. Edwards later uploaded video of the ensuing confrontation to Facebook, where she also wrote that "this is a classic case of racial profiling in my half a million $$ neighborhood pool. This happened to me and my baby today."
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Are we racially polarized enough? The Civil War has been over a very long time ago.

Why are people so nosy and why do they escalate non issues like this by calling the police? In this case if someone felt another person was using the neighborhood pool without permission, even when that person had a pass to get it, why don't they go to the lifeguard or the manager if they are there? The policia have much more important things to do, like lip sync in their patrol cars.

americanwoman said:

...In this case if someone felt another person was using the neighborhood pool without permission...

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This is the crux the issue. Why did she assume that?

It's a far too easy assumption for far too many Americans...