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Five Infuriating Cases Showing How People Are Getting Fed Up With All the Snitches

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As 2018 marks the "Summer of the Snitch," it appears that people have finally had enough of neighborhood busybodies.

Snitches are not a new problem—they have been terrorizing communities in America for decades—but this summer it seems like people have finally had enough, and are beginning to fight back. In the past, cop-callers have been able to play the role of the concerned citizen or innocent victim, despite the fact that they were unleashing violent mercenaries on people who are no threat to anyone. In most situations where police are called, a simple conversation will solve the problem without the risk of violent escalation, which is sadly common in police encounters.

However, there have been multiple recent incidents across the country that give us some hope that the tables are beginning to turn on the snitches. In these cases, the nosy neighbors didn't get a pass and a pat on the head, but were instead publicly humiliated and even lost their jobs in some circumstances.

Has the American snitch culture finally worn out its welcome?

Below are a few recent situations where paranoid busybodies with nothing better to do called the cops on innocent people and many of them quickly came to regret it:

Barbeque Becky

The summer of the snitch began this May, at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, California, when a woman called the police on a black family for having a barbeque. Although they were all in a public park, the woman who the internet later named "Barbeque Becky" accused the family of trespassing, and told them that they were "going to jail."

However, much to Barbeque Becky's dismay, when the police showed up they did not make any arrests or write any citations and allowed the barbeque to continue. Footage of the encounter went viral and instead, Barbeque Becky became the most popular meme on the internet for several weeks.

Now, Kenzie Smith, a member of the family who had the police called on them that day, is running for city council in Oakland.


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