White Woman Calls Police on Bob Marley’s Granddaughter After She Didn’t Smile. Now the Filmmaker Wants Justice

After someone called the police, seven cop cars rolled up on a group of black filmmakers, including the granddaughter of Bob Marley, Donisha Prendergast. Suggested Reading Where Are The Children Of Black Civil Rights Leaders Now? Veteran Black Journalist’s New Novel Explores Love, Hip-Hop and Magazines in the 1990s How Duke University Suing Its Own…

After someone called the police, seven cop cars rolled up on a group of black filmmakers, including the granddaughter of Bob Marley, Donisha Prendergast.

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The group was renting an Airbnb in Rialto, Calif. Now they want justice.

Prendergast recently spoke out at a New York press conference. “Just because I wasn’t bowed and handcuffed against the ground—my blood is not running in the streets—doesn’t make it any less violent,” Prendergast said. “What happens to all of us is an indignity. There was no respect and no honor.”

Now the group might sue for discrimination.

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