Monthly Archives: December 2013
Nail art for Christmas: peppermint swirls
Easy Santa Claus Hat Nails
What are your weekend plans?
Amazing mountain bike backflip over a canyon gap
Amel’s favourite school subject
vocabulary : weather words
How to make Christmas crackers
Yamin’s nice boy…
Be careful what photos you send…
“I, Frankenstein” official trailer
Visit Japan
UK and USA by Yousra
The Lunchbox : an Indian “feel good movie”
Furkan’s UK flag
Visit New York
Does your brain criticize your heart?
Map of school shootings in the USA
Candy cane Christmas nails
Quick hairstyles
Do you fight with your brother or sister?
10 amazing facts about The Simpsons
Amel’s heart
Teenager handcuffed by police because he is Black.
[difficult words translated at the bottom of the text]
Trayon Christian, a Black teenager, went to a New York shop on Madison Avenue (Barney’s) to buy an expensive $350 belt. He had saved money from his part-time job for weeks to be able to afford it.
After buying the belt and leaving the store, the college student was grabbed by undercover officers and asked, “how a young black man such as himself could afford to purchase such an expensive belt,” and they handcuffed him.
The store clerk had called police, once Trayon Christian exited, claiming that the purchase must have been fraudulent.
The police officers allegedly asked Christian for his ID, telling the teenager that he could “not afford to make such expensive purchases”. After verifying that the card did in fact belong to Christian, they let him go.
Christian, who has no arrest record, said he would never shop at Barneys again and subsequently returned the belt out of disgust.
His lawyer told the New York Post that Christian was unlawfully targeted because of his skin color: “His only crime was being a young black man,” said.
a belt :
handcuffs :
ID :
to purchase = to buy