Outcry after woman calls police on little girl selling water

Eight-year-old Jordan Rodgers was selling bottled water on a San Francisco sidewalk for about 15 minutes when she was confronted by Alison Ettel for not having a permit.


"She asked me where's my permit? And I didn't know what a permit was," Jordan told CBS News.


There has been a growing backlash online against Ettel, who is white, who allegedly called police on the little girl, who is black, since Jordan's mother, Erin Austin, intervened and recorded the interaction on video.


Why call the police, Ettel was asked?"Um, illegally selling water without a permit," she replied.


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Raj @_ethiopiangold





So my little cousin was selling water and didn't have a permit so this lady decided to call the cops on an 8 year old. #PermitPatty
1:35 PM - Jun 23, 2018


Austin says she is not sure if race was a factor for the woman who reported it, but said that woman was filled with hate for calling the police on such a young girl.


DeMarco Morgan reports Jordan was selling water because she wanted to go on her first-ever trip to Disneyland.


"Recently I lost my job and we were planning a trip to Disneyland before that happened," Austin said. "And so it kind of sidelined us a little bit. And my daughter just wanted to help."


In this latest instance of black people being reported to authorities for seemingly normal things, Ettel – now nicknamed by critics "Permit Patty" – has drawn comparisons to Jennifer Schulte. In April, Schulte (mocked online as "Barbecue Becky") called the police on a group of black people having a barbecue in a park.


Last month a Yale grad student called police on a classmate for napping in a common area.


And two months ago, two men were detained for using a Starbucks bathroom and sitting at a table for several minutes without ordering.


Ettel told the Huffington Post that she acted because Rodgers and her mother were screaming, but that after watching the video she feels "horrible and heart-wrenched." She also said, "I completely regret that I handled that so poorly. It was completely stress-related, and I should have never confronted her. That was a mistake, a complete mistake."


Austin denies screaming, and says the situation should have never escalated to calling the police.


"Let kids be kids," Austin said. "If they're not hurting anybody, who cares?"


Austin's daughter says she does plan to keep on selling water.


As for the trip to Disneyland, musician Jonathan Brannon saw the story and has already paid for Rodgers and three of her family members to go whenever they'd like.


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Sorry but this is sooo Fuked up. What POS calls the cops on an 8 Year old ???

heard this lady has a business called TreatWell, which makes cannabis tinctures for cats and dogs. and that one customer has already stopped doing business with her.

Another poor black people story pushed through the media. Why don't you post a story about black people attack white people at an off-the-charts rate?

A group of black people kidnap, torture and poor Drano down some white woman's throat.... not news.

A young black girl trying to sell bottled water.... national news.



You're too smart to get played by the media, BAS. Think big picture. It's the same reason they're pushing transgenderism.

Runmaker is actually right here. Was the lady driven by racism? Possibly, but it is always assumed and pushed down our throat like headline news. Let's just assume the lady had racist intentions in this situation...bad? sure it is, but so bad that it has become national news? Of course not. this is where we are as a country and it is sad.

RunMaker said:

Another poor black people story pushed through the media. Why don't you post a story about black people attack white people at an off-the-charts rate?

A group of black people kidnap, torture and poor Drano down some white woman's throat.... not news.

A young black girl trying to sell bottled water.... national news.



You're too smart to get played by the media, BAS. Think big picture. It's the same reason they're pushing transgenderism.

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I know that's a part of the story that's posted. But when I see a story like this, I don't see Color. She's 8 years old... you hear a few of these a year

PoundFoolish said:

Runmaker is actually right here. Was the lady driven by racism? Possibly, but it is always assumed and pushed down our throat like headline news. Let's just assume the lady had racist intentions in this situation...bad? sure it is, but so bad that it has become national news? Of course not. this is where we are as a country and it is sad.

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I'm not sure if it's a Race thing. Like I said, you hear these stories a few times a year and it's not about race. CBS news seems to think it is, because of the backend of the story.

I should have just taken that part out

She is a liberal. So how do the left play this story?

You have to understand the media is controlled -- big-time.

Personally, I don't care about kids selling bottle water. Who cares? Sure, it's ridiculous that some fat woman called it in... but that's what fat women do.




Here's another article:

Black man purposely mows down a family on a bicycle and kills the father. Can you imagine if a white man purposely mowed down a black family on bicycles?


Published: June 25, 2018
Updated: June 25, 2018 at 03:43 PM




TAMPA — Pedro Aguerreberry pedaled along New Tampa Boulevard on Sunday pulling his son Bennett in a trailer as his other son Lucas rode alongside them.
As father and sons headed east on a paved bike path, a former star track and field athlete named Mikese Morse drove west in a Dodge sedan, Tampa police say.
Morse didn’t know the family, but he decided at that moment to make the trio his target, police allege.
Morse, 30, spun the Dodge around, crossed a lane of traffic, tore across a grassy easement and then sped up just before slamming into the father and two sons, according to police.
All three were taken to local hospitals. Pedro Aguerreberry, 42, was pronounced dead a short time later. Bennett, 8, was treated for a broken leg, and Lucas, 3, had minor injuries.
Morse fled the scene of the mid-day Sunday collision and was arrested later on charges including premeditated first-degree murder and leaving the scene of a crash with death. He was held without bail at the Hillsborough County Jail.
Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said an account from a witness who saw Morse make the U-turn indicates that he intentionally mowed them down. But investigators were still working to answer a critical question: Why?
"What type of person would purposely run over a family that was just bicycling down a bike path?" Dugan said at a Monday news conference. He said Morse seemed "disturbed" after he was detained, admitted to the attack but didn’t offer "a complete explanation" for his motive.
Videos and other posts on Morse’s Instagram page — some of them apparently posted near the time of the crash and later that day — paint a portrait of a man unraveling, fixated on what he claimed to be the devil’s power over him.
"I still will kill every single one of y’all on that motherf-----’s head right now," Morse said in a video posted Sunday. He appears to be walking along the edge of a wooded area while recording with his phone.
"This universe can end. I do not care," he said. "You see these energies changing inside of me and stuff and trying to change perspective..."
Then, just before the video ended, Morse said: "I don’t ever help a man, I’m fittin’ to kill somebody tonight right now."
After the collision, Morse didn’t stop, instead fleeing east in the maroon 2008 Avenger toward Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, Dugan said.
The boys, the chief said, "essentially watched their father die."
Aguerreberry had worked with Citi for more nearly 20 years and on two continents, according to his LinkedIn page. Since 2009, he has been a senior compliance analyst.
Patrol officers found Morse’s car about two blocks from his parents home in the Pebble Creek area of New Tampa. Plastic was taped to the front windshield to conceal the damage, police said.
He was located at his parents’ home on the 9500 block of Pebble Glen Avenue and was taken to the Police Department’s downtown headquarters, where he was arrested about 9:45 p.m. Sunday. Police say he lived at the same address. His family ordered a Tampa Bay Times reporter off their property Monday morning.
Morse’s arrest was a stunning turn for an accomplished athlete.
As an all-conference long jumper for Freedom High School during his senior year, he helped its track and field team finish second in the state finals, according to Times archives. As a running back on the football field, he led the Freedom team to its first winning season in 2005.
Later, he earned All American track and field accolades for both the University of South Florida and the University of Miami. He was a three-time United States Olympic Trials qualifier and two-time finalist in 2008 and 2016.
Police could find no sign of past contact between Morse and the Aguerreberrys, Dugan said.
Morse was involuntarily institutionalized for mental health evaluation June 12 under Florida’s Baker Act, Dugan said. He walked into a police district office exhibiting "odd behavior" that met the criteria for the act, but nothing about that incident foreshadowed what Morse admitted to doing on Sunday, Dugan said.
Morse has had some minor traffic infractions but has not been arrested in Florida, records show.
Dugan said detectives are also investigating the Instagram videos.
"There’s going to be a lot of things he’s going to have answer for," the chief said. "We’re looking into his background to see what would motivate him to do something like this."
Dugan said all he could think about Sunday night was Aguerreberry’s widow and what she now faces.
"Instantly her life has changed," he said, "and she’s going to have to pick up the pieces for her two kids and for herself.
This is a developing story. Stay with tampabay.com for updates.
Times staff writers Paul Guzzo, Dan Sullivan and Bre Bradham and senior news researchers John Martin and Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Contact Tony Marrero at tmarrero@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3374. Follow @tmarrerotimes.

The same with the poor me, illegal kids fiasco in the media.... all geared to control and steer public opinion. Funny, nobody today is whining in the media of lawbreakers' children.

I guarantee you they played the algorhythms within social media to propel the water bottle story.


Then what do we have at the end of the day? More people controlled by the media. Easy as pie.

:sadbb:

StevieRay said:

She is a liberal. So how do the left play this story?

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A left being racist! Will the Clintons have her knocked off?

We should all focus our efforts on things we can control in the immediate future such as our bankroll as opposed to issues we will never resolve.

I bet now she wishes she didn't call the popo on that little girl now.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pe...y-video-calling-police-on-girl-selling-water/



Woman resigns as CEO of company after backlash from calling police on girl selling water



STUDIO CITY, Calif. — The woman dubbed "Permit Patty" for threatening to call police on an 8-year-old black girl selling water on the street has stepped down as CEO of her cannabis company. CBS Los Angeles reports the move follows a massive online backlash that resulted in her products getting dropped by other marijuana sellers.

Several Bay Area dispensaries are now refusing to sell products made by Alison Ettel's company TreatWell Health, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

"It is Ms. Ettel's belief that TreatWell, its employees and patients should not have to suffer because of a situation that occurred in an escalated moment," company spokeswoman Cynthia Gonzalez is quoted as saying in the paper.

At least three marijuana dispensaries stated publicly they would stop selling TreatWell products.

"I forgot to mention that we had pulled [TreatWell's] product line as soon as we saw the video," said the manager of one San Francisco store. "We do not support that type of behavior!"

TreatWell sells pain-easing "cannabis-based tinctures in different ratios for humans and pets," The Los Angeles Times reported last year.


The producer of "Lady Buds," an upcoming documentary on women in the legal cannabis industry, said Ettel would no longer be part of the project.

Some have pointed out the irony of Ettel selling marijuana products for dogs despite the fact that cannabis is not regulated or approved for use on animals.

She told the Chronicle in 2015 that the company's practice was "kind of like 'don't ask, don't tell.'"

The online debacle began when video of Ettel appearing to call the police to report 8-year-old Jordan Rodgers for selling $2 bottles of water near AT&T Park Saturday went viral.

What a f'd up world.

Michelangelo said:

What a f'd up world.

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Yea it is