Post by downtoearth on Jun 25, 2018 15:27:42 GMT -5
Woman who called police on black girl selling water insists she’s not racist
A woman captured on viral video calling police on a black girl who was selling bottled water in San Francisco insists the incident had nothing to do with race — just the “disturbance” caused by the young entrepreneur, according to a report.
“I want the little girl to know that it’s not her fault,” Alison Ettel, who is white, groveled on NBC’s “Today” show Monday, and said she has received hate mail and death threats.
“I want the mother to know this was nothing to do with race at all. It had everything to do with the disturbance. I was very stressed out. I definitely made comments that I never would have in any other situation, and it’s not an excuse.”
Ettel has been flooded with messages of condemnation after 8-year-old Jordan Rodgers’ mom, Erin Austin, posted the video on her Instagram account, in which the woman is seen holding a phone to her ear.
More at link, but the girl was selling water to Giants fans to make money to go to Disneyland.
What kind of "disturbance" can an 8 year old selling water be causing? I bet she'd get along well with the lady from Oakland that called the cops on the people trying to have a bbq.
This lady is a wanker. I grew up in two different college towns and there are people who make their livings selling shit to sports enthusiasts - everything from cups with lids to parking spaces in their lawns. If a student had the audacity to get in on the action, vendors got mighty pissed and tried to shut them down using whatever means necessary. There was at least one fight every game day over perceived territory. No outsiders allowed.
What kind of "disturbance" can an 8 year old selling water be causing? I bet she'd get along well with the lady from Oakland that called the cops on the people trying to have a bbq.
What kind of "disturbance" can an 8 year old selling water be causing? I bet she'd get along well with the lady from Oakland that called the cops on the people trying to have a bbq.
I am in awe of how quickly the internet can find a person.
But, why did Today even give her a second on screen? Racists are pretty much always going to say they aren't racist - this woman is no doubt a liberal who thinks she isn't part of the problem.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
What kind of "disturbance" can an 8 year old selling water be causing? I bet she'd get along well with the lady from Oakland that called the cops on the people trying to have a bbq.
Right? What a charmed life she must lead if a little girl selling water is her idea of a disturbance.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
Seriously. If you aren’t deciding to call the cops based on skin color here, I’d LOVE to know how you draw the line as to acceptable behavior and that which warrants a call to the police. Fuck this woman. Upset about a flipping kid selling water during a baseball game? JFC.
I hope she calls about every table of Girl Scouts and their cookies and Boy Scouts and those tubs of popcorn, every bootleg t-shirt salesperson, every kid who hawks chocolate bars, and the homeless people with their $1 newspapers. And everyone in between. What an asshole.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
Seriously. If you aren’t deciding to call the cops based on skin color here, I’d LOVE to know how you draw the line as to acceptable behavior and that which warrants a call to the police. Fuck this woman. Upset about a flipping kid selling water during a baseball game? JFC.
I hope she calls about every table of Girl Scouts and their cookies and Boy Scouts and those tubs of popcorn, every bootleg t-shirt salesperson, every kid who hawks chocolate bars, and the homeless people with their $1 newspapers. And everyone in between. What an asshole.
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Sadly I find none of this surprising. Someone in my friend’s community called their county and their HOA over her two little girl’a lemonade stand. There are no words.
Seriously. If you aren’t deciding to call the cops based on skin color here, I’d LOVE to know how you draw the line as to acceptable behavior and that which warrants a call to the police. Fuck this woman. Upset about a flipping kid selling water during a baseball game? JFC.
I hope she calls about every table of Girl Scouts and their cookies and Boy Scouts and those tubs of popcorn, every bootleg t-shirt salesperson, every kid who hawks chocolate bars, and the homeless people with their $1 newspapers. And everyone in between. What an asshole.
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Sadly I find none of this surprising. Someone in my friend’s community called their county and their HOA over her two little girl’a lemonade stand. There are no words.
There have been several instances in recent years of kids being fined or having their lemonade stands shut down because of lack of permits. Country Time has set up a legal aid fund for any kid who gets in trouble for their lemonade stand.
As for this lady, of course it was racial. She didn’t like that a little black girl was making noise.
Sadly I find none of this surprising. Someone in my friend’s community called their county and their HOA over her two little girl’a lemonade stand. There are no words.
There have been several instances in recent years of kids being fined or having their lemonade stands shut down because of lack of permits. Country Time has set up a legal aid fund for any kid who gets in trouble for their lemonade stand.
As for this lady, of course it was racial. She didn’t like that a little black girl was making noise.
I believe it was less about the noise, and more about the fact that the girl/her family didn't shut up when she first told them to. She wasn't able to put them in their place, same with BBQ Becky.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
Back up here a minute -white people chained to trees?? Explain.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
Back up here a minute -white people chained to trees?? Explain.
I would imagine it's a tree-hgger thing, in the most literal sense. I don't really know though.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
Back up here a minute -white people chained to trees?? Explain.
So these people weren’t chained, but they did squat in trees for years.
The sad/scary part is that I would bet that this woman believes beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is being honest that “it’s not about race.” Of course, she’s wrong, and it IS about race, but there’s no convincing her. It’s just a “coincidence” that this girl happens to be black. Just like it’s a coincidence that she turns her head and “doesn’t see” all of the stuff that white people around her do every day. I have zero doubt that if this little girl had been white, the woman would have been “too busy” doing other things to take the time to call the police.
I’m around people like her daily. They think they’re good people and are horrified at the suggestion that they’re a racist, but that doesn’t make them any less racist!
According to Shaun King, PermitPatty may have been running her business on the shady side of the law as well. She owns a pot-shop for pets and has been selling for human consumption as well. She may get fined and serve jail time. Which likely wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been a heinous bitch in the first place.
Another news source said she's had at least one customer pull out from her business (this was before I knew what her business was, just that she owned one and that a customer is no longer doing business with her.)
Patty said the mom was yelling too. Look if that was true, I am sure it grated after awhile. Two people yelling would annoy me. BUT you live in the city and you have choices. It was hot in SF so shutting the window probably wasn't an option. But she could have gone to Starbucks, put ear buds in, decided to go on a walk and enjoy the day etc etc etc.
I agree to with the above poster that she was trying to put them in their place when they didn't immediately respond to her whiny ass. And she was offended they dared to be in her space.
Also I read that she ran her little dog weed business illegally before weed was legal. Oh so that was just a-okay. She was being an entrepreneur unlike this little girl.
What is so particularly racist about this shit is that if you live in the Bay Area, you know that the whole damn place is filled with white people doing things they are not supposed to. I can't walk around the block without seeing white people smoking pot, white people with off leash dogs, white people chained to trees, naked white people, white people riding bikes and scooters on the sidewalk instead of in the road, etc etc etc. So for her to see all these "broken windows" around her, but choose to stop to report some little girls for selling bottled water?
For real. The level of crazy shit is at another level. I saw a grown man take a dump on a lane divider in the middle of a busy street in Oakland. I did not call the police. I mean, you live in a big city and people are packed super tightly together there. People being loud is daily life. This woman is garbage.
I watched this on Twitter this weekend, and was amazed at the speed at which this woman's identity was discovered.
What a gross racist POS she is.
And every single one of the useless racist bitches need to be outed. Keep going with the white lady shaming for this racist shit until they either get that being a heinous bitch only shines a light on your cockroach ass and gets everyone focused on your dirty deeds.
Jordan’s mother, Erin Austin, said Ethel walked up to her demanding a permit. She threatened to call the police if they could not produce one. Later, Ettel told the Huffington Post, that she was only pretending to call the cops.
As a result of her actions, Ettel who sells cannabis, one of her suppliers, Magnolia Oakland said that they were going to stop carrying her products.