{"id":214834,"date":"2026-03-11T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:06:07","slug":"beverly-hills-polices-unacceptable-treatment-of-black-man-jaywalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214834\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Hills police\u2019s unacceptable treatment of Black man jaywalking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: Based on various media reports, including in the Los Angeles Times, the Beverly Hills Police Department\u2019s presence at James Jannard\u2019s estate on Valentine\u2019s Day seems reasonable (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-03-06\/beverly-hills-history-with-race\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cJaylen Brown video sparks furor over how Beverly Hills police treat Black people,\u201d<\/a> March 6). I understand why Celtics star Jaylen Brown is offended and I empathize with his feelings of yet another Black man being singled out for law enforcement scrutiny. Yet, the number of city code violations \u2014 cars parked in the wrong direction, people blocking a driveway and more \u2014 likely warranted enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Salehe Bembury\u2019s encounter with the Beverly Hills Police Department is a wholly different and unacceptable act of what appears to be a deliberate attempt to humiliate and demean a Black man. It\u2019s a far too frequent occurrence. If I, a white woman, am stopped by an officer for jaywalking in Beverly Hills, one of several things will happen: I\u2019ll be verbally reprimanded and warned to not jaywalk in the future; I\u2019ll be issued a written warning; or I\u2019ll be given a citation that carries a fine. What I will not be is patted down, made to put my hands behind my back and searched.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard complaints about being stopped for \u201cdriving while Black.\u201d This is the first time I\u2019ve heard of someone being accosted by police for \u201cjaywalking while Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teresa DeCrescenzo, Studio City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Based on various media reports, including in the Los Angeles Times, the Beverly Hills Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[85709,24168,2680,98539,2072,18531,18784,98538,98540,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,15516,95639,98537,74236,98541],"class_list":["post-214834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-beverly-hills-police","tag-black-man","tag-black-people","tag-city-code-violation","tag-editor","tag-encounter","tag-estate","tag-james-jannard","tag-jaylen-brown-video","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-presence","tag-salehe-bembury","tag-unacceptable-treatment","tag-valentine","tag-wrong-direction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}