Black Woman Gets $385 Fine For Talking “Too Loud” On The Phone

A black Michigan woman was fines for reportedly talking too loud on her phone while she was on a sidewalk after her neighbor called the police.

WJBK reports that Diamond Robinson was walking on the sidewalk by her house when a neighbor approached her and asked“Do you think that you can get off your phone or talk lower?”

“One of those things she said,” Robinson said. “And I said, ‘Get out of my face,’ and I proceeded to walk past her. She is saying whatever she is saying. Three minutes later, Eastpointe police pulls up.”

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Robinson documented her encounter with the officers on Facebook live.

“I get a ticket for being a public nuisance because I’m talking too loud on my phone,” she said in her video. “That’s why I got a ticket?”

“There’s no way police should be called on me when I am on my own property, in my own neighborhood, on my own block,” she added.

Robinson reveals her white neighbor moved in a few weeks ago and she believes that the call was racially motivated.

“A lot of these things are being pushed under the rug and they don’t need to,” she said. “We can sit here all day and we can chant, we can riot, and we can do all of those things [but] that is not going to make a change if you don’t speak up at that time, at that moment.”