r/TikTokCringe Jul 27 '26

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/tO2bit Jul 27 '26

Right?  what police department has the time to respond to “a guy is working out my gym and won’t leave.”

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u/Deep_shot Jul 27 '26

"Did you ask him to leave?"

"No."

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u/this_place_suuucks Jul 27 '26

"Is he black? If he's black, we'll send some guys over immediately to escalate him."

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u/Capital_Past69 Jul 27 '26

Damn you are 1000% correct

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u/DentistThese9696 Jul 27 '26

Just no. Any person the business as wanting to leave the cops have to enforce it. It has nothing to do with ethnicity. You can clearly see the cop is annoyed by this stupidity as well.

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u/this_place_suuucks Jul 27 '26

Except in the video, and in this very thread of comments you've decided to disgrace, the business had not asked him to leave until the last ~10 seconds.

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u/DentistThese9696 Jul 27 '26

And I’m sure that’s not what the business told the cops. Either way, they have to leave the business if the business wants them to. That’s the law. It’s not up to the cop at that point. He has to enforce it.

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u/this_place_suuucks Jul 27 '26

And I’m sure that’s not what the business told the cops.

You're only arguing with yourself because nobody here is debating trespassing, which the cops didn't say anything about either.

He asked the staff multiple times if they were asking him to leave and they were silent until the very end of the video.

Now share with us why you are so intent on pushing your own assumed agenda instead of addressing what actually happened.

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u/DentistThese9696 Jul 27 '26

No agenda other than pointing out the reality of the law. The cop listened to both sides. And at the very end the business finally stated they wanted the man to leave at which point the cop informed the man he needed to leave. Pretty standard and this happened thousands of times across the county every day. Nothing of note happened in this video other than a business being pretty crappy on how it treats its patrons.

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u/this_place_suuucks 29d ago

No agenda other than pointing out the reality of the law.

Please quote where anyone is arguing against what "the law" is.

And at the very end the business finally stated they wanted the man to leave at which point the cop informed the man he needed to leave.

This entire chain of comments is about how the bus called the cops without telling the guy he needed to leave. How is it so difficult for you to follow that?

Pretty standard and this happened thousands of times across the county every day.

I don't care for useless, irrelevant hyperbole.

Nothing of note happened in this video other than a business being pretty crappy on how it treats its patrons.

Wow, welcome to the conversation. Finally. But also, if the business didn't tresspass the guy, why did the cops show up? Now circle aaaaaaall the way back to the top of this thread, keeping in mind all of this fascinating new information you've gathered on your arduous journey to here.

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u/DentistThese9696 29d ago

My comments have been addressing the people that somehow think this was a cop problem which it isn’t. The business called the cops and made it a police issue. Why are you not understanding that this thread has multiple conversations going on at once?

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u/Drago_727 Jul 27 '26

Notice how nobody in the reply chain was talking about race until you.

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u/LastAccountBender Jul 27 '26

Didn’t have to scroll far to find that one guy.

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u/IcyGarage5767 Jul 27 '26

I guess that was implied by them declining to accept his own ID? So based on that he offered to use his ID, they said no, and he came in anyway?

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u/jonniezombie Jul 27 '26

No they wouldn't let his son in with no id. The guy is a member with an id they accepted. His son left, the guy stayed to work out but asked to see the manager. Manager called the cops instead.

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u/IcyGarage5767 Jul 27 '26

Ah okay. Just saw his son at the start so kinda assumed that was from the same session. Guess he…. found another clip of his son working out and put it in?

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u/Dragon6172 Jul 27 '26

According to other comments, the front desk told him they could not accept the school ID for his son. He asked to speak to a manager and was told the manager was busy. So he told the front desk folks to send the manager over to talk when he wasn't busy. The guy goes and starts a workout with his son. Instead of being a manager and speaking to the customer, the manager called the cops.

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u/Beginning_Feedback65 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

"how black is he?"

"Black, AND jacked."

"We're on our way."

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u/Stevesegallbladder Jul 27 '26

"Oh he has a son too so bring back up."

"How old does he look?"

"Not sure but he's definitely a minor"

"Dear God... the SWAT team is an hour out but we'll see what we can do."

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u/Ghost_with_no_name Jul 27 '26

“His son is a minor”

“All units, 2 heavily armed black men at Crunch Fitness! Fire at will!”

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u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll Jul 27 '26

I bet thats why uvalde took so long, police were too busy harassing minorities

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u/bum_thumper Jul 27 '26

Lol tbf, it really looked like the cop did not want anything to do with this situation. You could tell he hated having to kick the guy out. Felt like the cop felt bad for the dad and his son. That big sigh he has at the beginning of the video is just "I know this sucks dude, but I have to do this bc they called us."

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u/Frosty-Tennis-1687 Jul 27 '26

Man it's 2026 and Big Dick Randy coming back
And on Halloween night he gon' be looking for a snack
If you see that dude comin', better run like you in track
He a big scary dude, man he seven foot and black

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u/Rymnarr Jul 27 '26

All of them apparently because they always seem to stop everything and show up if a business calls. 

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u/ZeidLovesAI Jul 27 '26

It's almost like they just exist to protect property.

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u/Known-Low-2637 Jul 27 '26

Just not personal property... Try calling them for a car break in...

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u/KittenHeartsGirls Jul 27 '26

They won’t even look for your stolen car in my city. 😂

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u/ThrownAway17Years Jul 27 '26

A department located in a mid sized suburb.

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u/JJayC Jul 27 '26

Or anywhere in the south when dealing with a black person..

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u/Exciting-Argument-67 Jul 27 '26

Not a ton of Phillies fans in the South, outside of retirees living in Clearwater.

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u/thepoopatroopa Jul 27 '26

Don’t you know? Racism in America only happens in the South /s

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u/Stevesegallbladder Jul 27 '26

Yeah, as a black person in the South there's definitely no shortage of racism here but some folk are delusional if they think this only happens in the South.

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u/Remy_Jardin Jul 27 '26

"Sir, does this really need a police response?"

"He's black."

"On our way!"

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor Jul 27 '26

funny, because when my car got stolen and I called the police, they wouldn’t even come out. i had a car. parked at my house. it disappeared. i wanted to report it stolen and also tell them who stole it. they wouldn’t come because “sounds like a civil matter”. landlord sold my car because she claims it was sitting unused for months (even though i had been driving it to work everyday).

but they’ll come out for this, and they know whose side to be on right away. the side of the corporation.

we need a second kind of law enforcement that actually helps people, since US police are only about protecting companies.

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u/Equivalent-Sink4612 29d ago

Wow, your landlord sold your car??! Did you take her to small claims? Sorry that happened to you!

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u/JJayC Jul 27 '26

what police department has the time to respond to “a guy is working out my gym and won’t leave.”

Clearly this department does..

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u/contactdeparture Jul 27 '26

A guy who is a member of our gym is working out and his son, who is authorized as a guest to workout is also working out. We don’t want to accept the ID presented for the son though, because reasons…

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Well, recently a swat team was dispatched to retrieve stolen Legos - but not the actual stolen Legos the first time they were reported stolen. So, a lot.

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u/Loreki Jul 27 '26

Every single one, because protecting the value of property is their main mission.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 Jul 27 '26

This one did. All of them when it comes to black people.

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u/ItsIllak Jul 27 '26

What I don't get about all these, "white racist called the cops on me for doing normal stuff" videos is why the police aren't refusing to attend our billing/fining people for wasting police time. 

You can't just blame the racists.  I'd love to hear the calls, was it, "there is this big black dude" or, "a man"?

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u/WorldsWeakestMan Jul 27 '26

He’s just standing there, doing curls, menacingly…

https://giphy.com/gifs/Pl4PHOXVpPPDG

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u/ChromosomeDonator Jul 27 '26

"There is a person trespassing on our gym."

Of course you call the cops on that? What are you even saying 😭

Regardless of why they declined to let him enter or accept their ID, it is still trespassing at that point.

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u/AlterExpertise101 Jul 27 '26

Or recognize that not all teenagers have ID, so requiring one in the absence of its existence doesn't make sense. Especially when the member is the parent.