An unfortunately common anxiety among African-Americans concerns the matter of when, not if, they'll find themselves targeted.
For Sandra Bland, this occurred when she was arrested and threatened with a stun gun for failing to signal. She would later die in police custody under unknown circumstances.
Jermaine Massey did not face such extreme and fatal consequences, but he nonetheless had the police called on him by staff at the hotel he was staying at for calling his mother in the lobby.
But while black Americans may increasingly find themselves having the police called on them for frivolous reasons as in this example, one tragic case from Georgia makes it clear that such behavior from others can escalate to far more extreme degrees.