A black woman talking on the phone in her Detroit neighborhood was slapped with a $385 fine after a white neighbor called the cops on her for being too loud.
Diamond Robinson was speaking on the phone on Thursday while taking a stroll in Eastpointe when she says she was approached by a neighbor who asked her 'Do you think that you can get off your phone or talk lower?' Robinson told Fox 2 News.
Robinson wrote on Facebook that her neighbor, who she called 'Rebecca', told her that she was talking too loud while she was working from home and her boss asked her about the noise.
Robinson replied 'get out of my face,' and walked past her. Just three minutes later the Eastpointe police arrived at the scene, she told Fox 2. That is when Robinson pulled out her cellphone and went on Facebook Live.
'I hope I'm not the next victim of Black Lives Matter, but if so f*** it because I will do what the f*** I wanna do,' she captioned the broadcast.
Robinson captured the moment three Eastpointe police officers pulled up to the front of her home and told her to go back into her house because she was being too loud and 'obnoxious'
Robinson tells them she pays taxes to live in the neighborhood.
When an officer told her she can go to jail for being too loud she asks him what specific law says she is not allowed to speak on the phone in her own neighborhood.
The officers walked away and went to their vehicles before returning with a $385 ticket for being a 'public nuisance' and placed it Robinson's mailbox after she refused to accept it.
She sarcasticallRobinson told Fox 2 she plans on fighting the ticket and that the incident led her to install security cameras outside her home.
She said she felt the need to broadcast the incident on Facebook live so that it wouldn't go unnoticed.
'A lot of these things are being pushed under the rug and they don't need to,' she told Fox 2. 'We can sit here all day and we can chant, we can riot, and we can do all of those things (but) that is not going to make a change if you don't speak up at that time, at that moment.'
Robinson said her only message to her neighbor is 'Leave me alone, what's going on, are you upset? What did I do to you?'
The neighbor gave a short comment to Fox 2, saying the fine 'speaks for itself.'
When asked by Fox 2 about Robinson's hefty fine, Eastpointe police simply said 'She will have her day in court.'y told the officers 'I hope you have a terrible day, don't work too hard,' and the cops left.
Culled from the dailymail.com
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