FROM ONE A DI GIRL DEM FACEBOOK
Kells Fyffe-Marshall
last Tuesday ·
STORY TIME: During our time in Cali we have been staying at an Airbnb. The 30th was our second morning and at about 11am we checked out. The four of us packed our bags, locked up the house and left. As you can see 3 of us were Black. About 10 seconds later we were surrounded by 7 cop cars. The officers came out of their cars demanding us to put our hands in the air. They informed us that there was also a helicopter tracking us. They locked down the neighborhood and had us standing in the street. Why? A neighbour across the street saw 3 black people packing luggage into their car and assumed we were stealing from the house. She then called the police.
At first we joked about the misunderstanding and took photos and videos along the way.
About 20 minutes into this misunderstanding it escalated almost instantly. Their Sergeant arrived… he explained they didn’t know what Airbnb was. He insisted that we were lying about it and said we had to prove it. We showed them the booking confirmations and phoned the landlord… because they didn’t know what she looked like on the other end to confirm it was her.. they detained us – because they were investigating a felony charge – for 45 minutes while they figured it out.
We have been dealing with different emotions and you want to laugh about this but it’s not funny. The trauma is real. I’ve been angry, fustrated and sad. I was later detained at the airport. This is insanity.
The cops admit that the woman’s reason for calling the police was because we didn’t WAVE to her as she looked at us putting our luggage into our car from her lawn.
#wedidntwave #arighttoberight #racialprofiling privilege #rightourstories #therevolution #whenyoupulloverfilmmakers @directedbykells
@iamdonisha @komiolaf @ahutchphoto Nisha Rebel Ashlee Hutchinson
See Less
Right, because ppl robbing houses are packing up luggage now. Everybody know which house in the neighbourhood a do Airbnb because of all the strange faces coming and going and their luggage. And nuh meck nobody come seh dats why ppl fi stay in hotel, cause black ppl have been accosted in hotels too, especially in upscale places if they feel you don’t fit the usual guest profile.
That bitch expects a wave, why? So the police don’t plan on charging her for wasting taxpayers dollars and 7 whole cops showed up for what? They hear black so they automatically thought it was true. The neighbourhood is not even upscale just an average working class place and look how dem acting. Even when they living basic they think black ppl desperate to have their things, which is nothing of worth, their sense of delusion is so great that they think their basic azz lower middle class neighbourhood is enviable to the average black person and should be protected, neighbourhood looking like any housing scheme a yawd, and look how dem a gwan.
Welcome to Amerikkka
I can’t take this chick serious…why them name her Doniesha! As Bob granddaughter me a expect a African name like Afua or Babjide. Me cya get pass the name to read the story.
Shut the f**kk up!! you sound so stupidddd!! Bob also have a daughter name Kiya by robert marley, Pat Marley Grand Daughter too and that aint no african name.
:ngakak :ngakak Afua or Babjide. A wah weewi up mi cyaaah manij.