Posted on Dec 21, 2022
Mother of 9-year-old girl who says daughter was profiled over lanternflies grateful for support
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9-year-old Bobbi Wilson set out to solve her Caldwell, New Jersey, neighborhood's lanternfly infestation this fall.
For days, Wilson had been spending time outside using a solution of dish soap, vinegar, and water that would kill the bugs without harming the plants around them on her neighborhood's lanternfly-infested trees, but on the morning of Oct. 22, a neighbor called the police on Wilson to report a suspicious small Black woman with a hood who was spraying trees and sidewalks.
Wilson and her mother Monique Joseph recounted the events and discussed the support their family has received since in an interview with "GMA3" on Monday.
For days, Wilson had been spending time outside using a solution of dish soap, vinegar, and water that would kill the bugs without harming the plants around them on her neighborhood's lanternfly-infested trees, but on the morning of Oct. 22, a neighbor called the police on Wilson to report a suspicious small Black woman with a hood who was spraying trees and sidewalks.
Wilson and her mother Monique Joseph recounted the events and discussed the support their family has received since in an interview with "GMA3" on Monday.
Mother of 9-year-old girl who says daughter was profiled over lanternflies grateful for support
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."After engaging in peaceful conversation with Wilson and Joseph and noting that there was no threat in Wilson doing what she could to help her community, Officer O'Neill informed Lawshe that the woman he thought he saw was a child catching lantern flies, and left without incident.
"Even [Lawshe's] response then, there was nothing about it that sounded like neighborly," Joseph said, adding that Lawshe, who was standing outside watching the whole time, never approached to resolve the situation.
Joseph says that it wasn't until afterwards that she thought about how the encounter could have gone differently, worse. Joseph says Lawshe later apologized, telling her that he thought Wilson was a missing child, which she discovered to be untrue upon receiving the call's transcript.
"And that was the moment that I realized when he racially profiled by daughter, when he used dogwhistle terminology that was dangerous," Joseph told "GMA3."...
..."After engaging in peaceful conversation with Wilson and Joseph and noting that there was no threat in Wilson doing what she could to help her community, Officer O'Neill informed Lawshe that the woman he thought he saw was a child catching lantern flies, and left without incident.
"Even [Lawshe's] response then, there was nothing about it that sounded like neighborly," Joseph said, adding that Lawshe, who was standing outside watching the whole time, never approached to resolve the situation.
Joseph says that it wasn't until afterwards that she thought about how the encounter could have gone differently, worse. Joseph says Lawshe later apologized, telling her that he thought Wilson was a missing child, which she discovered to be untrue upon receiving the call's transcript.
"And that was the moment that I realized when he racially profiled by daughter, when he used dogwhistle terminology that was dangerous," Joseph told "GMA3."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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