ESPN writer Jemele Hill has blasted the Philadelphia Police Department, and implied that racism played a role in the handling of the arrest of two black men in a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday.
@Starbucks The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us when we do the same thing. pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci
— Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 12, 2018
ESPN’s Jemele Hill decided to stoke the racial fires before waiting for details to emerge:
#HeresWhatTheyThinkAboutYou https://t.co/2TrkUqXSz7
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 14, 2018
Once again, this train is never late … https://t.co/AIYg26HqgW
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 14, 2018
Once some more info was released, she tweeted some more, and then some more.
Because the police had been called, I’m guessing the least they had to do is ask these gentlemen to leave. But why arrest them? Why embarrass them by placing handcuffs on them? I have seen plenty of officers de-escalate situations like these. https://t.co/2aIKIo1K2T
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 15, 2018
That’s another question I’d like to be answered. I get responding to the complaint but they took every step afterward as if the intention was to prosecute to the fullest extent. The fact that this even crossed a prosecutor’s desk is mind blowing. https://t.co/Bbyan5RJIJ
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 15, 2018
Some twitter users took issue with Jemele’s strategy on her tweets:
Did you wait until any of this story came out? Or is it baiting first ask questions later?
— Scott Priestley (@spriest5485) April 15, 2018
It is almost as if you want to get fired, even from a leftist channel such as #ESPN…lol… keep it up.
— Stephen Davenport (@unitedSWD1968) April 15, 2018
Girl, what's mind blowing is ur selective disregard for #RuleOfLaw
Asked to leave by a business and you don't..trespassing
Asked by law enforcement, repeatedly, to leave and you don't..obstruction@Starbucks called 911 for help..why is it selectively expected to NOT enforce
— Stephanie Rowe ??? (@stephrowepctdel) April 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/My_news_feed/status/985648338765787140
Nice job race baiting.
— Seeley (@TehBlackWolf) April 15, 2018
Did Jemele violate the network’s rule requiring that ESPN personalities “should be in position to discuss the issue with authority and be factually accurate.”
It doesn’t matter, she speaks her mind, and I give her props for that, but maybe it’s time she becomes a talking head on one of the news channels, seems much more in comfort zone.
