OT: Jewelry store pretends to be closed and calls cops on John Henson

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  1. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    http://uproxx.com/dimemag/2015/10/john-henson-jewelry-store-cops/

    Despicable.
     
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  2. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    So he can sue them, right?

    Or there's some kind of federal law that they broke?
     
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  3. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Next time they won't have to pretend.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    If I'm Henson, I pull out my checkbook, I buy the store and then I put their frightened asses in the unemployment line....
     
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Shit, something like that wouldn't even happen down here and I see a truck with a confederate flag on it several times a week, as well as an suv that says "white pride" on the back of it in low income housing.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    Wow, this some fucked up shit.
     
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  8. blue32

    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    Ohhh, now that makes more sense if that's true.
     
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    Got a source for that? That does change things.
     
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    Uh huh.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Dixon said the store has had three armed robberies in 18 months, and one of the suspect vehicles involved is from the same dealership as Henson's vehicle. Dixon said when employees saw the vehicle with dealer plates, they became suspicious based on the previous robberies.

    http://www.wisn.com/news/bucks-play...ally-profiled-at-whitefish-bay-store/35928260

    Still fucked up, regardless. They handled this in a pretty shitty manner.
     
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  14. blue9

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    So they're profiling a car dealership? Riiiiiight. I can't imagine there are a ton of luxury car dealers in Milwaukee, so it would stand to reason that MOST luxury cars in the area are from the same dealership.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    How do you figure? They spotted a suspicious plate, and acted accordingly. Race had nothing to do with it.
     
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    Dealers Plates are a plate that a car dealer can move from car to car so it can be driven before it is sold and licensed in a customers name. It's a combination of letters and numbers assigned to a particular dealer. It is extremely unlikely that a person saw that the car had a dealer plate and was able to determine that it belonged to a specific car dealer. The police can easily do it but the general public can not. It's similar to you looking at someone's license plate and knowing who owns a car.
     
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    smh, someone get me out of the midwest and send me to NY or Cali, or at least Chicago!
     
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    Yeah, I was thinking, a jewelry store salesgirl looked out the plate glass storefront, and her eagle eye analyzed the tiny writing on a license plate bracket a hundred feet away?
     
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    I used to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's hard to when many of these communities do the same to people of color.
     
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    That's some messed up racist shit
     
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