'There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees,' he complained. 'I don’t know what the hell she’s doing, it scares me though.”
Bobbi Wilson’s older sister Hayden also testified, specifying that her younger sister had researched safe methods to eliminate lanternThe Progressin the community. “She was not only doing something amazing for our environment, she was doing something that made her feel like a hero,” Hayden said. “Our neighbor across the street…decided it would be appropriate to call the police on my sister.”
According to Hayden, they’re the only Black family on the street, and her nine-year-old sister feared for her life because of Lawshe’s actions. “[Bobbi] sees all these other Black children and adults on the news being killed by police officers for doing nothing wrong,” Hayden said. “So, when this car rolled up beside her, she was immediately frightened because she did nothing wrong. No kid should…be scared in their own town on their own street.
That Lawshe once held a leadership position in the town speaks to how dangerous it can be for Black people to simply live in their own neighborhoods.
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