AMC Theater Kicks Out Rev. William Barber

[ProfD]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/29/rev-william-barber-ii-amc-theaters-to-change/72057398007/

 

Rev. William Barber walks with two canes and has his own personal chair to sit.

 

Last week, Rev. Barber took his 90-year old mother to see The Color Purple movie.

 

Rev. Barber brings his chair into the movie theater as a reasonable accommodation.

 

Yet, some goofy azz movie theater employees take exception and call the cops. The po-po escorted Rev. Barber out of the movie theater. 

 

Considering Rev. Barber was in his home state of North Carolina, clearly, these people should have known him. He's only the most prominent civil rights activist there.

 

The CEO of AMC definitely knows Rev. Barber's work. He quickly issued and apology and wants to have a meeting for damage control, er, to clear up any misunderstanding. 

 

Whether there is a lawsuit or not, a few  crash dummy employees will lose their jobs after potentially costing their employer a few million dollars.

 

The police department has some explaining to do as well. This story ain't over yet.

[Troy]

Well, he is a big dude sitting in that high chair blocking the view of  people behind him. If it was one of those stairs where you select your seats and I was sitting behind him, I would’ve been pissed.

 

I could definitely see them asking him to move. maybe sit in the back. The minimum wage employees probably were not sophisticated enough to try to understand why somebody will bring a big ass chair to the theater  like that deal with any “accommodations.” I’m sure they had no idea who he was.

 

 calling the police seems to be an overreaction but what you expect.

 

I don’t think his prominence, or lack there of, should’ve been a factor how they treated him.

 

As with most things on the web the entire situation, is more nuanced than the title exclaims. 

 

I’d argue it’s not even news worthy at this point. it is just sensationalism praying on peoples emotions.

[Pioneer1]

An even bigger problem that needs to be addressed is how so many White folks are using the police as their own personal security service to deal with Black people.

 

Not just out in public but even on jobs, so many times White managers and supervisors end up calling the police on Black employees simply because they refuse to leave the property or act in a way that makes THEM feel intimidated.

In the old days, you had private security that would escort you off the property if need be.
The police didn't even get involved.
Now the FIRST thing many of them do is call the cops and start exaggerating the circumstances.

One of these days these White folks are going to call the police on the WRONG Black man and will find out that he TOO is the police.
......a Federal Officer.
....and has back-up.
....and whoever called the local cops as well as the cops themselves will find themselves in a Federal Building 'splainin what happened.

"Well......I'm sooooorry....I
I thought he was homeless....he....he looked like...
He just kept asking for a public restroom and I......
I assumed that.....a lot of homeless people...well....I'm sorry.
I didn't know he was a U.S. Marshall...I thought.....
I'm so so sooooorry.....can I just be released and go home???"

[Troy]

Were the employees all white?

[ProfD]

10 hours ago, Troy said:

Well, he is a big dude sitting in that high chair blocking the view of  people behind him. If it was one of those stairs where you select your seats and I was sitting behind him, I would’ve been pissed.

I think he posted up his chair in the same spot that handicapped folks park wheel chairs. It doesn't block anyone else's view. 

 

10 hours ago, Troy said:

I could definitely see them asking him to move. maybe sit in the back.

That would have been a more reasonable accommodation than calling police.

 

10 hours ago, Troy said:

I’d argue it’s not even news worthy at this point. it is just sensationalism praying on peoples emotions.

The outcry would have been far worse had he been in the alphabet soup community. 

[Pioneer1]

I told you  these racist cops are going to come across the WRONG Black man one day.........lol.