Permit Patty & BBQ Becky: Comparison of Viral Villi of the Bay

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Alison Ettel, aka Permit Patty, left, and Jennifer Schulte aka Becky BBQ, are two nasty Bay Area virals that have a lot in common.

Two Bay Area women became viral villains after videos posted on social networks showed them calling the police or threatening to call cops on people of color for minor offenses. Alison Ettel, who was nicknamed "Permit Patty," was recorded trying to prevent an 8-year-old girl from selling water in front of her own home in San Francisco on Thursday. And Jennifer Schulte, nicknamed "Becky BBQ," called the police on a group of blacks who were barbecuing in an Oakland park last month.

The two women have compared each other and there are a lot of similarities. They are both part of a series of incidents where whites have reported people of color to the police or authorities for seemingly unnecessary reasons. Women have been accused of racism on social media and their photos have become memes.

Here are some common points:

The two women tried to play the role of the victim when they were confronted with the ones they were trying to put in trouble

YoutubeThe woman was crying when the police arrived.

Jennifer Schulte and Alison Ettel both tried to play vicina when they were confronted with the people they called the authorities. Schulte was seen crying video while talking to the police and saying that she was the one who was being harassed. The police took a report but issued no citation.

On May 24, police published a newspaper that reveals more details about the call. The policeman told dispatchers that he had assessed Schulte for psychiatric care of 5150, but determined that she "did not fit the criteria," according to the report obtained by KTVU-TV.

"A 5150 in California allows a police officer or other professional to arrest a person up to 72 hours to assess his mental state and determine if it represents a danger to himself or to others," reports KTVU.

The incident took about 3 hours, with Schulte on the phone with the police almost all the time, the records show. At one point, the dispatcher told the Schulte agents, "Ring 5150".

Schulte did not comment on the incident.

In the "Permit Patty" video, we can see Ettel hiding behind a wall and acting as if she were being harassed by the woman she called security. Ettel told HuffPost that she felt she had been "discriminated against".

"It was stupid," she added. "I totally regret having handled this so badly.It was completely stress-related, and I should never have had to face it.It was a mistake, a complete mistake." If you like, do not make me look horrible.

They both moved to the Bay Area from outside the state

TwitterAlison Ettel aka #PermitPatty.

Schulte and Ettel moved to the Bay Area from elsewhere. Ettel hails from Georgia and moved to San Francisco to work in the world of technology and startups after studying at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. Schulte grew up in North Dakota and attended the University of North Dakota and Stanford University before moving to Oakland.

Social media users accused the two women of being "gentrifiers" and calling the police on people of color for simply living in a neighborhood where they had been for longer.

Schutle has been in Oakland since 2006 and Ettel moved to San Francisco in 2012.

They are both very educated

LinkedInAlison Ettel.

Schulte and Ettel are both highly educated and do not respond to the stereotypes of a person who is thought to behave in a "racist" way. But many on social media emphasize that it's not just the uneducated, rural and conservative types that discriminate against blacks and other people of color across the country every day. In other viral incidents, a lawyer was caught in the act of fanaticism against Spanish-speaking restaurant employees and a doctorate from Yale. student called the police on a black graduate student to nap in a common area.

Schulte graduated from Stanford University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, according to her LinkedIn profile now deleted.

Ettel studied economics, finance and international affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She then obtained a Master's degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

& # 39; Permit Patty & # 39; & & # 39; BBQ Becky & # 39; both occupy important positions in their areas of work

YouTube / LinkedinJennifer Schulte was identified as the woman who called the police on black people doing barbecues in an Oakland park. The video of the incident became viral and led to the same "BBQ Becky".

Both "Permit Patty" and "Becky BBQ" have significant power positions within their businesses and industries and have received attention for their work.

Schulte works as a senior project manager in a resource and environmental services company in Oakland, according to his LinkedIn profile. His work is on the quality of the air. She is also a technical specialist on climate change. She previously worked at Horizon Water and Environment, URS Corporation and Environ International Corporation.

An announcement for a 2016 meeting of the American Petroleum Institute shows that Schulte gave a lecture entitled "Revised OEHH Risk Assessment Methods: Developing a Facility Play Plan" for the organization. Dr. Jennifer Schulte is Senior Project Manager at ERM based in Walnut Creek, Calif. She has 10 years of experience as a specialist in air quality and climate change and is recognized as an expert. in the areas of air quality, emission estimation, atmospheric dispersion modeling, health risk assessment. "Dr. Schulte has conducted complex projects in California, the United States, and other countries, including air emissions inventories, atmospheric dispersion models, health risk assessments, and climate change analyzes for many countries. many customers. various other industrial areas. It conducts air quality and climate change analyzes for regulatory compliance, environmental studies required for CEQA and NEPA, and litigation support.

The Irvine, California, website shows that she was part of a team that prepared an additional environmental impact report as part of a city project.

Alison Ettel is the CEO of TreatWell, a cannabis company, which researches the medicinal uses of the pet jar. She has been quoted in several press articles on the industry.