Woman Says Officer Tried To Sell Her Stuff On Craigslist 35
Quothz writes "Last spring, an Arlington police officer listed his neighbor's athletic gear on Craigslist. After a review, the Tarrant District Attorney's office has decided no crime was committed. 'The law just wasn't there,' says county prosecutor Dixie Bersano. So, Texans, clean up those yards and lock those doors, your stuff is free for the giving."
WTF? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hmm... (Score:3, Insightful)
Selling other people's stuff without their permission is usually prefaced by taking said items, but I don't see why this should be any different. The guy stole her stuff and sold it. The people who picked it up are in possession of stolen property.
WRONG? YES. RACIAL? NO. (Score:3, Insightful)
Was what the officer did wrong?
YES.
Was it racial?
Most probably not. The (soon to be ex-) officer did not mention race at all, nor did his statement even come close.
"To me, it's racial," said Huwitt, who is black. Hickey is white. "You can look at it any other way, but that's the way I look at it."
-The problem here in America is not so much RACE but people thinking that any negative actions between two people of different races constitutes racism.
Yes, I feel that she was definitely wronged in having her stuff placed up for auction without her consent, but to make a race issue out of it is just plain stupid. She needs to grow the fuck up, stop being ignorant, and educate herself on what race actually is before she starts making charges of racism.
The police department that employs him should kick him to the curb.
Not Feeling Very Sympathetic (Score:2, Insightful)
From TFA:
When the first two men told her about the ad and offered to unload the basketball goal from their truck, Huwitt called her husband.
And yet she says...
"He put my life in danger, and my daughters," she said. "I just ran out there. Those guys could have killed me. "I could have grabbed a shotgun and shot it over nothing," she said. "And he's a police officer. How can he endanger people's lives like that?"
They sound like very dangerous criminals don't they? Thank the lord she had the "incredible" self restraint to go and talk to the gentlemen first before firing the aforementioned shotgun. Here's the clincher, though:
"To me, it's racial," said Huwitt, who is black. Hickey is white. "You can look at it any other way, but that's the way I look at it."
Right, because anytime a white person harms a black person, it's racism. Let's just ignore the fact that white people get into confrontations with one another all the time.
It sounds to me like she's a little crazy (for the shotgun comment,) and probably quite a difficult woman to live beside (given her irrational propensity to insist that this must have been an act of racism.) I'm not saying that the officer was right to do what he did, but I'd be very surprised if, on some level, she hadn't provoked this.