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07/19/2018
Mother says her son was racially profiled while delivering newspapers in Ohio
Police were reportedly called on an 11-year-old African-American boy as he was delivering newspapers in a Columbus, Ohio suburb, the boy's mother told USA Today.
Brandy Sharp, the boy's mother, told USA Today that she was driving alongside her son, Uriah, and his older brother as they set out on their first day delivering newspapers in Upper Arlington, Ohio.
Sharp said she realized Uriah had delivered newspapers to a few incorrect addresses and asked him go back to pick up the wrongly delivered papers, USA Today reported.
That's when a police officer showed up on the scene.
The officer was reportedly responding to a call about suspicious activity. Sharp said, once she explained the situation, the matter was dropped.
But the experience prompted Sharp to recount the story on the Facebook, where she goes by the name "Bmai Love."
"First day of paper route and we are pulled over by police...Sad I cant even teach my son the value of working without someone whispering and looking at us out the side of their eye perhaps because we DON'T 'look like a person that belongs in their neighborhood,'" she wrote.
