Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That

Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That

On May 22, 2022, three police officers for the city of Childersburg, Alabama, responded to a 911 call from a woman requesting they check on her neighbors’ house. The elderly white residents were out of town, she said, and she saw an unfamiliar “younger Black male” near the home. Cops arrived to find Michael Jennings, a 56-year-old Black man who is the pastor of a nearby church, watering the flowers with a garden hose.  When officers told Jenning…