One more things you can't do while black—move into a new home without being questioned and brutalized.
Dhoruba Bin-Wahad was moving boxes into a home in Clayton County, Georgia when police arrived. A neighbor called police after seeing someone in the previously empty home and when police arrived, they came in with
guns drawn:
“I assumed that they were pursuing someone on foot that had fled through my yard, and I was unaware of it,” he said. “I thought that that’s why they had their guns drawn and that’s why they were surrounding my house. I didn’t think that they were coming for me.”
Bin-Wahad immediately told them he was the new renter and had the key, but police were convinced he was a burglar and held him on the front porch. In a show of drastic overkill, at least four police cars pulled up to the scene. While one officer headed into the house to look around, another officer in the back reported over his radio that he saw someone in the house. Of course, it was the officer in the house, but everyone went into adrenaline mode and one overly aggressive cop out front brutally slammed Bin-Wahad into the brick wall and threw him to the ground. A neighbor caught the whole thing on video:
Officer Ryan Hall lied on the police report about the incident and after the neighbor's video was discovered, he was fired. Today prosecutors announced relatively light charges:
Hall is facing a simple battery charge, and his bond was set at $2,000.
Let's hope the entire Clayton County police force learned a lesson from their gross mishandling of the original call.