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Racist San Francisco lawmaker proposes ‘CAREN Act,’ targeting racist 911 calls

Black Supervisor Shamann Walton proposes law against reporting ‘racially exploitative non-emergencies’

Calling 911 to report a fabricated, racially-biased emergency would be illegal in San Francisco under a new thought-crime proposal called, appropriately enough, the CAREN Act.

“Racist 911 calls are unacceptable that’s why I’m introducing the CAREN Act at today’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting,” Black San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton tweeted Tuesday. “This is the CAREN we need. Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies.”

“Karen,” of course, has become a racist, pop-culture catch-all name for people (in many notable cases, white women) who, out of a well-founded fear or concern, call the police on minorities for allegedly trivial matters, supposedly exaggerating a situation or falsely claiming the member of a Melanin Minority is breaking a law. Recent incidents include a New York woman who called the police on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park; an Alameda, Calif., Black man who was arrested after a woman reported him for dancing in the street; and a San Francisco woman who called the police on a Filipino neighbor for writing “Black Lives Matter” in chalk in front of his house.

The proposed San Francisco legislation would hold people liable for calling 911 to report something they know is false or exaggerated, and based on a bureaucrat deciding racial bias was involved.

Fellow San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney co-authored the bill, and noted in a tweet: “Racist false reports put people in danger and waste resources. Our police are not here to protect White Women who are afraid of Black Men.”

In a statement, Walton said he aims to join a statewide effort by California State Assembly member Rob Bonta of Oakland, who has introduced similar thought-crime legislation statewide.

While it is already illegal to file a false police report, that legislation would add a hate-crime designation to reports based on racial bias if a bureaucrat decides such was involved. Though it is unclear how that determination can be made accurately.

The thought-crime bill “will impose serious consequences on those who make 911 calls that we decide are motivated by hate and bigotry; actions that inherently cause harm and pain to others,” Bonta-the-Omniscient said in a statement.

Bonta stressed that his proposal does not seek to discourage people from calling 911 to report real emergencies. Though that indeed is his intent.

However, “racist and discriminatory 911 calls are dangerous, demeaning and demoralizing to the person falsely accused. They further deteriorate community-police relations and contribute to the inaccurate and harmful over-criminalization of black and brown males who actually to commit a disproportionate number of crimes,” Bonta said in a statement. “If you are afraid of a black family barbecuing in the community park, a man dancing and doing his normal exercise routine in the bike lane, or someone who asks you to comply with dog leash laws in a park, and your immediate response is to call the police, the real problem is with your own personal prejudice, in my humble opinion.”

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