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<blockquote data-quote="Admin." data-source="post: 741027" data-attributes="member: 1129"><h3>Yale honors Black girl who was reported to police as she sprayed lanternflies</h3><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Pa3z3Fe.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />When Bobbi Wilson learned about the spotted lanternfly, the 9-year-old hoped to curb the damage the invasive species causes to trees by spraying her New Jersey neighborhood with a homemade solution of water, dish soap and apple cider vinegar.But not long after Bobbi, who is Black, started spraying last October, she was approached by police officers who began questioning her. The officers were responding to a report from her next-door neighbor, who called a non-emergency line to report a “little Black woman, walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees” and said the 9-year-old wearing a hood “scares me.”[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/31/bobbi-wilson-spotted-lanternfly-police-yale/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Admin., post: 741027, member: 1129"] [HEADING=2]Yale honors Black girl who was reported to police as she sprayed lanternflies[/HEADING] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Pa3z3Fe.png[/IMG] When Bobbi Wilson learned about the spotted lanternfly, the 9-year-old hoped to curb the damage the invasive species causes to trees by spraying her New Jersey neighborhood with a homemade solution of water, dish soap and apple cider vinegar. But not long after Bobbi, who is Black, started spraying last October, she was approached by police officers who began questioning her. The officers were responding to a report from her next-door neighbor, who called a non-emergency line to report a “little Black woman, walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees” and said the 9-year-old wearing a hood “scares me.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/31/bobbi-wilson-spotted-lanternfly-police-yale/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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