Black Student Has Police Called On Her While Eating Lunch
Another day brings another #LivingWhileBlack incident. An African-American student was confronted by a police officer after she only sat down to eat lunch during a work break at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon.
The racial profiling incident was sparked by a white college employee who reported the rising sophomore, who wasnât identified by name, for having looked âout of place,â The Boston Globe reported. The employeeâs description of the student â similar to that used to refer to people of color who are wrongfully deemed âsuspiciousâ for being in majority-White spaces and neighborhoods â was completely wrong.
A campus police officer was called to a campus common room and quickly discovered there was ânothing suspicious about the studentâs presenceâ at Smith, which is a private womenâs college. The incident is another example of police being summoned to a scene to only investigate a Black person for living their daily life. Wow.
The student, who said the employee thought she was a âsuspicious Black male,â revealed her feelings about the horrible incident on Facebook. She couldnât believe that she was targeted while working as a residential advisor and teaching assistant.
âI am blown away at the fact that I cannot even sit down and eat lunch peacefully,â she wrote in one post. âI did nothing wrong, I wasnât making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black. Itâs outrageous that some people question my being at Smith College, and my existence overall as a woman of color.â
An investigation has been launched into the incident, and the callerâs identity has not been released by the college.
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