Detroit resident Marc Peeples is now free to tend to his garden without the interference of three racist neighbors.
Peeples was a victim of racial profiling and harassment because he made three women uncomfortable while gardening in his 8 Mile neighborhood.
According to the Metro Times, the women routinely called the police on the man for urban farming. He is now free to garden after a judge tossed out the case against him last Tuesday, October 16.
The women at first pretended to support Peeples' community garden project by donating soil, but he soon discovered their true intentions.
One of the women, Deborah Nash, made a slew of allegations against him. She claimed he was a part of a gang because she saw trees painted red, black and green; she also blamed him for vandalizing local houses in the area and accused the farmer of threatening her with a gun.
In other calls to Detroit police, he was accused of being a pedophile when a group of children began working on the farming project, and the women said he was involved in a drive-by shooting.
Authorities were called to the garden in March in response to a call where Nash claimed Peeples had a gun. Bodycam footage obtained by the Metro Times from the interaction refuted her claims.
"Ain't no law against raking leaves," the officer said. "The guy didn't have anything on him and wasn't wanted for anything. They went to the end of the deal with this B.S., too."
Accusations of this nature continued to pile up leading to the Detroit Police Department and Wayne County Prosecutors Office bringing three counts of stalking against Peeples.
"They strictly thought their so-called white privilege was gonna work this time, and it didn't," said Peeples.
ABC Action News reports 36th District Court Judge E. Lynise Bryant ruled the allegations against Peeples were false. The women made false police reports to keep Peeples out of the neighborhood.
"I very much believed that the only reason that they called the police on Mr. Peeples being in their neighborhood was because of his race," said Judge Bryant. "It was clearly, in my opinion, that these ladies had engaged in not only harassment of Mr. Peeples but illegal conduct toward Mr. Peeples."
Peeples' attorney, Robert Burton-Harris, knew this was just one more instance of white people calling the police on Black people for doing mundane things. Recent incidents involved a Somalian activist and her family being harassed and denied service for speaking their native language.
Now, the two are filing a defamation lawsuit against the three women, according to ABC Action News.
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