White women called cops on man ‘gardening while black

A Michigan man claims three white women falsely accused him of various crimes for months to keep him away from a public park, in what he says is a case of “gardening while black.”

Marc Peeples, 33, says in a lawsuit filed last week that the trio repeatedly made bogus calls to the Detroit Police Department about him, throughout 2017 and early 2018, over a community garden he built in a park, the Detroit Metro Times reported.

The women — Deborah Nash, Martha Callahan and Callahan’s granddaughter Jennifer Morris — tried to get him “incarcerated or seriously injured by law enforcement,” because they wanted control of Hunt Park, according to the suit filed in Wayne County Third Circuit Court in Michigan.

They told cops that Peeples had stolen from homes near the park, threatened to burn down their homes across from the park and said he would kill them, according to the lawsuit.

Their claims resulted in him being charged with three counts of stalking but the case was dismissed.

Peeples and his attorney, Robert Burton-Harris, describe what happened as a case of “gardening while black,” according to NBC News.

In one incident, Nash called the cops to claim Peeples had a gun. When six officers arrived at the park, they found him raking leaves.

In another incident, Peeples was teaching a group of schoolchildren about gardening when Callahan allegedly called 911 and said he couldn’t be around kids because he was a convicted pedophile. He was arrested but never charged.

“I was arrested in front of children, and even after I was arrested my name was still being slandered, people were still saying things about me that wasn’t true,” Peeples said.

“I wanted to hold people accountable. I was locked up, I had to face trial, and I had to put my life back together.”

He is seeking $300,000 in damages.

via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/white-women-called-cops-on-man-gardening-while-black-suit/