Two journalists from KXAS-TV were out doing some reporting when the police were called on them because they looked “suspicious.”
According to Dallas News, Reporter Homa Bash tweeted about the incident she and her photographer, C.J. Johnson,experienced when they were stopped by police in Plano.
Apparently police were responding to a call they received about a “Hispanic-looking woman and black man with a suspicious white truck and camera near a school.”
Officer David Tilley arrived on the scene and recognized Homa from the news and realized this was a false alarm and let them continue on with their story near David Elementary School, where they were working on piece about a proposal to ban dogs from Plano ISD campuses.
Many people were wondering if police were called because of the color of their skin or if it had something to do with the white vehicle.
Officer Tilley was unable to answer those specific questions because the person who called police was asked by the dispatcher for a racial description of the two.
“We always ask, ‘Can you give us a description of the vehicle, of the people if you can see them?’ ” he said. “That way, when out officers arrive on scene, they know what they’re looking for.”
Well #Roommates Homa isn’t Hispanic she’s actually Indian!
Officer Tilley he says that this isn’t the first time this has happened and in fact it’s happened twice to a reporter who was white!
Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/10/13/black-hispanic-looking-nbc5-journalists-reported-suspicious-plano-police
