Georgia police called on black man babysitting white kids

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A white woman who spotted a black man babysitting two white children called police and then followed them home in Georgia.

WGCL-TV reported Tuesday that the woman stopped Corey Lewis outside a Cobb County Walmart and asked to speak to the kids. He refused, so she called police and followed them to his home.

An officer arrived and questioned the children, ages 6 and 10, and called their parents, David Parker and Dana Mango. The couple says Lewis is a family friend and their son attends his youth program.

Mango says the officer told her Lewis was questioned because he's a black man driving around with two white children.

Parker said he guesses "B-W-B is the new thing, babysitting while black."

dayemoon on October 10th, 2018 at 10:00 UTC »

This happened in my area. Mr. Lewis is very respected man in our community. He runs a mentoring business called Inspired by Lewis (https://www.inspiredbylewis.com). This woman actually followed him for an hour. Once he realized he was being followed he started a Facebook Live video and to protect the kids took them to his house. The police stopped him in his neighborhood and questioned the kids. The woman didn’t even have the courage to come over to where he was being questioned. She simply sat at the end of the street to watch the interaction with the police.

Calfee911 on October 10th, 2018 at 08:09 UTC »

I work at a 911 center (in the south) and the amount of stupid people that call on things like this is quite alarming. We have had people call because a black guy was dropping off his white girlfriend's daughter at day care in the morning. But the top-most racist thing I have ever heard (besides my co-worker being called the n-word) was an older white lady calling on 911--an emergency line--to report that a black man was walking down the road with a white woman, I asked if he was assaulting her or her him? No, she just didn't like it.....Really makes you hate people

Larry_Dimmick on October 10th, 2018 at 03:26 UTC »

I have mutual friends with this guy, he posted the video of the encounter with the police, but I have no clue how to link the video.