He Could Have Been Killed Over a Package Of Mentos... That He Paid For

In America if you’re black you can’t sit in Starbucks, or play a round of golf, or have a barbeque by the lake, or even take a nap in your dorm’s common room. And, if you’re brown, you can’t be seen in a gas station buying candy with being accused of stealing and having a gun aimed at you.

That happened to Jose Arreola, who walked into an Orange County, California service station to buy a pack of Mentos. Arreola and his wife, Jacqueline, were headed out to a club one Friday night at around 10PM when they pulled into a gas station to use the ATM. Jacqueline Arreola told her husband to buy her some Mentos.

Mentos. On the store security camera, after Arreola takes sixty dollars from the ATM, he is seen placing a package of Mentos on the counter and then handing the clerk one of the twenty-dollar bills he’d just gotten.

As the clerk counts out his change, Arreola puts the Mentos in his pocket and that’s when a man in black shorts standing behind him pulls a gun from his pocket, announces he is a police officer and tells Arreola to put the Mentos back on the counter.

Arreola puts his hands up, but explains that he’d just purchased the mints, but the officer keeps shouting at him to take his change and go. Only then does the police officer ask the cashier if Arreola had paid for the Mentos, and when the cashier tells the officer twice that Jose Arreola had paid for the mints, the officer offers only an apology.

But, that isn’t enough, by a long shot; after having a gun drawn on him because an off-duty police officer thought he was stealing candy, Jose Arreola retained an attorney and requested financial damages from the Buena Park department.

Good; maybe the local police department can undergo some racial training to learn that not every brown-skinned person in a service station putting candy in their pocket is a thief simply by virtue of their skin color.

And, you know, just think, what if Jose Arreola had decided to ignore the cop, shout that he’d paid for the candy, and tried to walk away. Would he have been shot to death for a package of Mentos that he’d purchased?

Is this who we are now, a country where brown-skin people are thieves in the eyes of police? Where black people get stopped and harassed just for being black? That isn’t America, and as I said before, maybe America should follow the lead of Starbucks and shut down for a day to educate people about racial bias.

You know, before someone gets killed over a pack of gum … a cup of coffee … a golf ball … or a nap.

OC Register

ISBL Asshat of the Week: GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

California Republican Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher believes that the Charlottesville rally by white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the KKK and other members of the "alt-right" was a "total hoax" designed by liberals to bait _____ and make him look bad.

Oh, honey, that tool doesn’t need our help to look bad; it’s the easiest thing he does.

Rohrabacher, who represents California’s very conservative Orange County, "thinks the Charlottesville riots were a “total hoax” staged by liberals.

Yes, he believes that a group of liberals created the march and pretended to be alt-right asshats and neo-Nazi wingnuts, and white supremacist f**kmonkeys just because we somehow knew that _____ would handle the whole thing badly, say the wrong thing and look like a bigot.

Of course, we didn’t mean to have one of our stand-in haters run down and murder Heather Heyer, who was protesting the neo-Nazis.

Rohrabacher is waist "deep into" his Charlottesville conspiracy theory sh*t-fest and claims to know "that Democrats were behind [the] white nationalist riots” because a former “Hillary and Bernie supporter” got Civil War re-enactors to gather under the guise of protecting a Robert E. Lee statue. 

“It was a setup for these dumb Civil War re-enactors. It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation [and] to put our president on the spot.” 

Yes, there were no neo-Nazis or Klan members or alt-right loons or white supremacists in Charlottesville that day; it was liberals dressed up as racists to make _____ look bad.

Seriously. A costume drama? But then, please to explain, all the known white supremacists and neo-Nazis who showed up that day and were interviewed by the media and seen on television marching and shouting their hate speech?

Can you explain that you idiot?

Of course not, and that is why Dana Rohrabacher is the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

PS He believes that global warming is a "total fraud" used by liberals to "create global government." 

Those damned liberals; we dress up as Nazis to make _____ look like an idiot and we created these epic storms to build a global power government.

Someone needs to take off his tinfoil hat, eh, Dana?

NCRM