An NAACP chapter president who found a target in his front yard over the weekend says that police initially dismissed the idea that the object could signal a potential threat.
Caldwell said he wasn’t sure who did it, but he called a non-emergency number for the Metro Nashville Police Department to file a report. A responding officer asked him why it was there, Caldwell said.
Caldwell said he told the officer that he viewed the target as a threat, telling him, “'I’m a black man in this country. I’m the president of the NAACP.' He was still dismissive.”A police spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but in a statement the departmentCaldwell added that after he published the post, the department was more responsive. He heard from a captain and other officials in city government.
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