Body camera video shows the moment a Black pastor was arrested while watering his neighbor’s plants in Alabama. Officers said they were responding to a call about a suspicious person in the yard. Michael Jennings was arrested despite a neighbor explaining that he and the homeowner were good friends. The charges against Jennings were eventually dropped and he plans to file a discrimination lawsuit against the officers.
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Did she identify herself? Why was her word accepted and his not accepted? If you’re going across the street to water flowers, chances are you’re not carrying ID
This is a horrible country, this is *the* video to show anyone from another country. Watering a neighbor’s flowers, that’s socialism. Arrested. Criminal record.
Most likeyt a white Karen called the cops
I love how he kept watering them flowers 💐I which I had a neighbor like that
Pastor Jennings? Really? You all are running the name of a pastor, only to learn he’s been friends with the neighbor for 7 years and it’s pretty customary for him to water his neighbors flowers while out of town. This Pastor looks like he wouldn’t hurt a fly yet you cuff him. 🥺 I’M TIRED OF THIS!!!!!!!!
i am continously disgusted, but never surprised. SOOO suspicious. watering the flowers…
Go with the flow if you good , lifes short.
All involved need to be sacked jailed and made pay compensation 👁👁👹👹🦇💩🤪🤡🤡🤡
DIsgusting
So, the White lady is not suspicious! Just the Black pastor!
I wonder if the police asked the White lady for her ID? Just to make sure she’s the person, who called the police?
This is crazy! I would not give them my name either! I hope he sues them! There is no crime! I hope this happens to me! I would not speak at all!
Disgusting policing
If only the cops would treat MAGA protesters this way.
Well, it looks like the ignorent cops just caught a law suit! I hope they lose there jobs and get charged with illegal detainment and maybe a few other charges! Being suspicious is not a crime!
you must keep your cool these guys have your life in their hands and they will I repeat they will do as they wish……
Nice boys. “What can we charge him with”.
Taser Taser Glock!
the charges won’t stick so he’ll be out on his.own recognance
Why didn’t he just provide identification, the officers wasn’t being aggressive, the brother took it there. We can’t have it both ways y’all. These particular officers were actually acting human.
Whoa, if this water gun hasn’t connected with the hose, he would have been probably arrested for the illegally armed weapon. Nice cops (=
Sure hope he doesn’t start pulling weeds. They’d get him for theft or property destruction.
It’s understandable why Black people suffer from high blood pressure.
is suspicious a felony or a misdemeanor? good law suit on ur hands
I think the cops are nice.
I’m sorry but if he would’ve just provided his ID or been a little more compliant, he would’ve been good. He didn’t get thrown in handcuffs for watering flowers, he got thrown in handcuffs for failure to comply. As a pastor, preaching about the rules of God, I feel he should’ve set a better example. He’s old enough to know how police treat us when we don’t comply. Watering flowers is far from threatening behavior but not wanting to prove who you are to people who ALWAYS ask for ID is suspicious to ANYONE. The police officer was just doing his job. He didn’t seem racist or aggressive with the brother watering the plants. I’ve had police talk to me like I wasn’t a human being. This was nothing. Nobody’s perfect but as a “man of God” who enforces rules of the Almighty, I felt he could’ve set a better example. The furthest thing from racial profiling. Don’t try to wake our people up over something so foolish. You’re teaching the youth that when they don’t feel like listening to authority, they don’t have to.
No no no now folks, why is it just law enforcement ask black brothers and sisters a simple question its always becomes a Matter of racism. C’mon now, it’s just normal simple question for you to answer without long run around.
Stuck 1860s . Please 🙏
Let’s move on now 🤔
What is the cops supposed to do?
“Does he have Permission to water flowers?” This brilliant porky is headed for a detective promotion.
This is just plain ol silly… kids in blue doing the most… I never see them “suspicious” check large groups of minorities in urban areas… but an old dude watering flowers, even with endorsement of a neighbor, yeah they had to look into this deeply… sigh…
Oh man !! these uvalde heroes never fail
How do we know she’s not lying ,,,,, she may break in,,,,,he’s ONLY suspicious because he’s BLACK
So must Americans carry their ID cards when the go out? And the police can demand that you show your ID card or you will be arrested? Sounds like a police state to me.
Depends on the State
Watering flowers while black
He’s not complying and not acting like a pastor . First thing he said I’m not going to get you my ID . He’s defiant
You do not have to identify yourself educate yourself cops
Depends on the state. The man was a former officer himself, so he probably was well acquainted with local law.
Nah I think the charcoal man deserves what happened to him, that’s for attacking Asian people on the street
Ooh I know he knows he wish he was younger. Former Cop
Go back 2Africa Ne-gars!
Pastor was belligerent, he was increasing levels of aggression. The police had little join but to detain.
The police had to do a job, and do it safely.
The question is, once police ask for ID. Do people have the right to refusal … or is it automatic detain and arrest. A clear understanding of tights needs to be understood on both sides
If there was any Racial profiling, it was the person calling the police
This vid is only a snippet of the entire footage. It highlights a bigger issue of stop and id requirements
Absolutely disgusting! Without question, they are profiling. Instead of letting the individual go, they continue to find reasons to charge him. This is embarrassing and supportive of body cams. These “peace” officers have nothing better to do! Thirsty on wanting to have power. No little city is hidden as they once were. You will be monitored and let this be a REMINDER OF THIS!!!
He said who he was, he told you where he lived, and where he worked. And still somehow he was suspicious and you couldn’t identify him. Yeaaaa ok. Smfh.
Whats has not been addressed in a lot of these threads is that emotions and tensions are high! If you are going to do this job, in this present climate you should understand that people are going to react based on there awareness of a given topic or situation.
Just think about it, if my friend and I have a discussion 2 days prior to this encounter “look after my house while I’m gone” and I make a commitment to do so, 2 days elaspe, I wake up, minding my business to honor a commitment to my friend and then police comes asking me questions about my person (considering the scenario above) I would be just as irritated! He reacted emotionally but who’s not emotional these days (not to say that it’s an excuse to react emotionally either)!!!
Did she say “it’s my FAULT!?!” So she called then?! Or am I trippin’… White people mind yall got darn business! If you so worried about someone being suspicious then WAIT IT OUT before you call the cops, SEE IF THEY ACTUALLY COMMITED A CRIME! Calling the cops is like 2nd nature to yall! We as black people don’t want to deal with them unless it’s absolutely necessary (@ least the majority)! YOU (white folk) don’t have the same tension as we have with them, YOU don’t have the same HISTORY as we’ve had, YOU don’t get the same treatment as we do! So if you are going to call, at least do us the courtesy and be diligent in you investigation, right about your suspicions and honorable in you disposition!!!!! I speak from experience and I live in Swfl were it happens all the time, it’s a conditioning that I don’t think many white people are aware of and if they are, they do it anyway but many black people are and can see it coming miles away! WE ARE TRAINED BY LIFE TO SEE DANGER COMING (MILES AWAY) LIVING IN THIS “OH SO GREATEST, FALLING COUNTRY” OF THE WORLD: AMERICA!
To my fellow black people, if yall are able not to allow your emotions get first dibs in a situation PLEASE do you and all of us a favor and comply (even if complying still isn’t favorable), take the hit, educate yourself of the law and do what you can to avoid and better situations like these. I’m tired of it and I know you are too…
You are a pastor and you talk like the devil? Why don’t you cooperate with the law.
People lie to police all the time.
If he was white this would never had happened.
Wow…watering someone’s lawn is a crime. Those officers went 0-100 real quick.
“Suspicious person” isn’t enough for you to have to show ID. Now if he were a person suspected of committing a crime that’d be a different story but last time I checked doing favors for your neighbors isn’t against the law
Shame on them. It’s 2022 and this is still happening?
He or his lawyer probably called 911 and set this all up, just to win the ghetto lottery.
ENOUGH!! I’M SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS 💩
I thought there was crime in the US? Since when is watering a garden a crime or suspicious? “Who called you?” “We don’t know!” Are they supposed to go visit the person who called and get a statement, info, or verification of what’s going on?
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRAINING THESE 👮♀️? If it were a white person standing there with a hose in his hand watering the garden, would the outcome be different?
Does AmeriKKKa not know the world is watching? We need mental health counselling for all you MF living in the US fr fr!!
Y’all looking hella BAD!!
The comments didn’t pass the mental health check
Did anyone turn off the hose?
Discrimination!!!
So in future, anybody out stealing will just pick up a watering hose and and play pastor! This guy really accelerated the situation!
That cop was protecting those flowers
He was watering the flowers. Obviously a threat. Racism is deep with the cops
If u not white u definitely a suspicion person cops know best
This is BS
911: Yea, there’s a black man outside of this house, he looks like he’s watering my neighbors plants. Dispatcher: click ☎️
That lady is straight grime. Didn’t even walk by to see if it was him because she was so petrified of the “black man attacking her” see how fear destroys other peoples lives ? Smh.
He establishes that the guy is just watering flowers for his neighbor and yet he doesn’t remove the handcuffs. Clear intent to kidnap this man unlawfully.
Pastor Jennings: The engineer of his own arrest.
Suspicious to be black in Amerikkka
DoEs hE hAvE pErMiSsIoN tO wAtEr tHeSe fLoWeRs 🤓 dumb question of the year award goes to…
These cops are digging a deeper and deeper hole for themselves.
Everyone of them are tyrants or just absolutely ignorant, incompetent fools that need to be fired and banned from ever working in law enforcement.
They all should face civil rights charges. Pretty soon people are going to get fed up with this type of bulls#@t to a point where there won’t be no return and the laws won’t mean anything. They won’t be able to arrest everyone.
Hi Mr. Officers, now please go spend our tax dollars to catch the real criminals.
Just give the cop your ID it’s pretty easy
Unless there’s an obvious crime why can’t they just leave people alone??
Cops in the USA will arrest anyone for absolutely anything. It’s a sad country when the “law” needs to show their ego and machismo just to make themselves feel good. Even worse, whoever called the cops on this guy when he was doing nothing wrong.
Suspicious how? I don’t get it. It’s a man watering his neighbors flowers. It’s not like a man was “adjusting” the doorknob of the back door or making sure the vehicle that’s not his wasn’t unlocked. IT WAS A MAN WATERING HIS NEIGHBORS FRONTYARD FLOWERS. Those cops saw a BLACK man and automatically profiled him as “suspicious” Another sad day for the human species.
Shouldn’t have been put in cuffs and should have taken the cuffs off immediately after they found out what was going on,
but I do appreciate the officer showing some compassion while talking to him and giving him a post explanation.
“No no I like this” 😬 y’all definitely got the wrong 1
That pastor about to get a bunch of money and upgrade the church lol
That was a pretty suspicious water hose, I have to admit when I first saw tha pastor I thought he was the infamous tulip watering bandit myself!!
All they needed was the white woman to confirmed it . Thank God she wasn’t a Karen
🤣🤣🤣
THIS HAS NOTHING TO WITH RACISM…….OKAY
Then why didn`t they ask the white lady, who came out of nowhere for her ID………and why do they believe everything she says?
So, after the pastor had already given them his name and explained what he was doing and why (as if burglars regularly water the flower beds if their victims), they then turned to ask the white woman to verify the pastor’s identity. And still that wasn’t enough, they asked for the pastors ssn. The only person who should have been cuffed and sitting in the back seat was the white woman for making a false report, which she even admitted was her fault.
America is a police state because the democracy is not real, it is a facade, every tax paying american is a slave to a system design to give the appearance of freedom but in actuality the police are just modern day slave plantation managers, keeping the slaves in check
Only in America. This sucks.
*Suspicious person=person of color
*Cop lingo 101
Whew yall racist. The man was literally watering flowers.
All you have to do is show ID or say your name dude…. WOW even black pastors act like THERE NOT SUPPOSED TO. Just like there black counterparts who really are doing something wrong. I’m surprised he didn’t try to run like the rest of them but I’m sure he thought of it when he put the water hose down and walked away from the police officer.
Y’all actually did it. Lol. You actually arrested someone who was following Gods most important commandments ‘…thou shalt love thy neighbor…’ The laws in your country is so messed up that you actually arrested someone who was being obedient to the Creator of Time and space. This is extraordinarily disturbing, nobody sees the problem with this???
Did the friendly white lady have to provide ID?
Black people are tired of this BS
Just listening to the cops trying to explain their reasoning to the neighbor just reminds me of kids when they do something bad and get caught by their mother. That tells me everything I need to know
So sad, he should be immediately terminated.
Even after confirming that he was not a suspicious person and was only watering his neighbors flowers he was kept in handcuffs and interrogated.
These cops failed.
Black in America
Police reform now!
Arrested? Or Detained?
I hope they loose they job. Protect and serve…from an elderly man watering flowers TF
He lives right there ➡
A “suspicious man” watering flowers 😂 I’ve done heard everything now
Even watering plants makes you a suspicious person these days, what’s next🤣🤣
I’m a white male so I’ve never experienced discrimination, but why not just cooperate and show the officer your ID? If this happend to me I’d be cognizant that it wasn’t the officers fault and they were responding to a call. Show them my ID and move on. Is that not the best way to handle this type of situation?
Stupid playing the Race card. Would of been done & over with if he had id on him.
Just f.ing identify yourself. End of story. Stubbornness is amazing.
I don’t think it’s racism. Just idiots acting like idiots.
Love all these arm chair cops, put on the badge and show us how it’s done or stfu