#PermitPatty: A white woman called the police on an 8 year old girl selling water

Things went well after Erin Austin lost her job so she entered into a deal with her 8 year old daughter, who was looking forward to a trip to Disneyland:

The family could still make the trip to the Magic Kingdom if Jordan could help raise funds, Austin told USA Today.

Then the young entrepreneur grabbed a white cooler, ice and some water bottles, taking advantage of Friday's pedestrian traffic outside her SoMa apartment and the sun. from San Francisco to make a few dollars.

"Icy water, $ 2," she shouted, offering hydration to passersby near AT & T Park.

Alison Ettel told the San Francisco Chronicle that the girl and her mother had been making noise for several hours. Sitting in her house while trying to work, says Ettel, she lost her temper.

Ettel tried to do something for the building security staff, but decided to take matters into their own hands. She has been fighting with Austin, and the last moments of this quarrel have now spread all over the world.

"This woman does not want to let a little girl sell water; She calls the police on an 8-year-old girl," Austin said outside the camera while she was following Ettel, who was holding her phone to his ear. "You can hide anything you want, the whole world will see you, damn it.

"Yeah, and illegally sell water without a license?" Ettel responds.

"On my property," retorts Austin.

"This is not your property.

"She posted the video on Instagram, telling the world to" make this (expletive) viral. . . an 8 year old child selling water in front of her building where she has lived all her life is NOT a reason to call the police. "

And 43,000 likes later, irritated neighbor Alison Ettel turned into a hashtag known as #PermitPatty, Disney's latest villain (-trip).

#PermitPatty spent the weekend on Twitter, joining the reluctant photoshop pattern #BBQBecky (black fame) and hurting the business prospects of Ettel, the CEO of a company that sells pet products from company.

Ettel did not respond to requests for comments.

She told USA Today that she only pretended to call the police on the girl. But that did not stop the critics from mixing it with the dozens of whites who have dried up the police on people of color for harmless activities.

On May 12, for example, members of a black sorority were interviewed by a state soldier while they were picking up trash on a Pennsylvania highway. Earlier that month, a parent called the police on two Native American students who arrived late for a university tour. And a student from Yale University was interviewed by police after her dormitory neighbor called the police because she was taking a nap in a common area.

Incidents gave rise to hashtags #LivingWhileBlack and #LivingWhileBrown and often ends with a black or brown person questioned by the police or handcuffed. In the worst case, the incidents degenerated into water hammers or even gunshots.

Starbucks closed 8,000 US stores for an afternoon of last month for racial prejudice coaching after a Philadelphia Starbucks manager called police on two black men who were waiting for a friend before ordering .

Phillip Atiba Goff, president of the Center for Policing Equity, a non-profit organization that promotes transparency and police accountability, told The Washington Post in May that many people view the police as an application of unwritten social rules.

"The problem is that, for a lot of people, law enforcement has been seen as their own valet of racism," Goff said.

"We are talking not only about crime, we are talking about disorder – anything that makes people feel uncomfortable or says that the social norms we have all accepted are being violated," he said. "And the problem is that black skin frequently violates the social order."

After the last #LivingWhileBlack controversy, fortunes diverged for Ettel and the eight year old child she is accused of intimidation.

Ettel has built a virtual wall around his social media life. She told the Chronicle that she had received death threats and sexually violent messages, and that people had tried to enter her building to confront her.

The company she runs sells pet cannabis products, and partners broke with her.

"From today, Magnolia will no longer wear Treatwell Dyes," Magnolia Oakland dispensary said in a statement on Instagram. "After seeing this video of their CEO, calling the police to an 8-year-old contractor who sold water on a hot day, we decided without hesitation that we could no longer go to his business."

Meanwhile, Jordan can pull out of the cold water industry: she goes to Disneyland after all.

A man who saw the tumult of social media bought the girl four tickets, enough for all his family to go.

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