A Golf Course Called The Police On Two Black Women For Alleging Playing Too Slow

It doesn’t take a lot of research to know that there’s a very long and torrid history of people using the threat of police brutality to scare Black people. It also doesn’t take much to know that many have abused our national emergency lines and resources to be petty.

Two African American women say they’re over this type of behavior and have decided to sue management at a Pennsylvania golf course after they called police because they were playing too slow.

In 2018, five African American women were on a golf course in Pennsylvania when the cops were called because they were golfing too slowly.

At the time, one of the golfers, Myneca Ojo, told CNN that she “felt we were discriminated against both as women and minorities. It was a horrific experience.”

For the five women involved in the incident, it was their first game as members at the Grandview Golf course in York County, Pennsylvania. One of the woman involved in the incident said that they had been slow at playing the game because they were “rusty.” According to CNN, one man by the name of Jerry Higgens was with a group of golfers behind the women’s group. He told police that the women “did not slow his group down in any way.”

Now, Myneca Ojo and Karen Crosby, two of the five women involved in the 2018 incident, have filed a lawsuit.

According to CNN, the lawsuit alleges that an owner of the golf course treated the women differently than other players on the course. The lawsuit also claims that all of the other players were Caucasian and male. 

The lawsuit is pushing for a jury trial and requests “compensatory and punitive damages but does not list a specific amount.” According to the lawsuit “an investigation by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission found that the women had probable cause that they were ‘profiled, harassed, evicted and subjected to different terms and conditions of service because of their protected classes’ and granted them the right to sue.”