Childersburg Police
Title: World News #73 – Childersburg Police (White Supremacy)
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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““What you doing here, man?” the white police officer asked an African American man quietly watering flowers in a front garden in Childersburg, Alabama.
“Watering flowers,” was the man’s reply.
Two minutes later, the man, the Rev Michael Jennings, 56, a pastor at the local Vision of Abundant Life church, was put into handcuffs. Three minutes after that he was placed in a police vehicle, under arrest for “obstructing governmental operations”.
The arrest, first reported by NPR, was captured on the police officer’s body camera. The man identified himself without being asked as “Pastor Jennings” and said he lived across the road.
He was told an anonymous neighbour had made a 911 call reporting “suspicious” activity outside the house of someone who had gone out of town.”
– The Guardian, Black pastor arrested while watering neighbor’s flowers in Alabama.
“Jennings tells the officer, “I’m supposed to be here. I’m Pastor Jennings. I live across the street.”
An officer responds, “You’re Pastor Jennings?” And he responds, “Yes, I’m looking after their house while they’re gone, looking after their flowers.”
The officer then asks Jennings for identification and Jennings says he will not give any identification to the officer. Less than a minute and a half later, as Jennings tries to make a call on his phone, officers handcuff him, the body camera footage shows.
The officers in the video later speak with the neighbor who called 911, who is not identified by name. “They are friends, and they went out of town today, so he may be watering their flowers, and it could be completely normal,” she tells the officers about Jennings and the homeowner.
“He would be watering their flowers, this is probably my fault,” she says.
Later in the video, Jennings’ wife arrives and provides the officer with his identification.”
– CNN, Black pastor arrested while watering neighbor’s flowers, video shows.
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