Susan Westwood’s racist rant landed her simple assault and criminal threats charges and a warrant after leaving the scene where she harassed the Garris sisters outside their Charlotte, N.C., apartment complex, threatening them with concealed weapons.
The fake 911 call she made saying that the sisters were trying to break in also earned her a misdemeanor warrant for misuse of the 911 system, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Westwood was booked by Sunset Beach Police on Saturday and transferred to the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department. She was later released.
The Garris sisters’ attorney, Michael Phillips, brought up the safety issue in terms of concealed weapons and threats to residents to the Camden Fairview Apartments attorneys, and they agreed to evict Westwood.
“When I spoke with them and their legal counsel they agreed that that behavior was not going to be tolerated at their apartment complex,” Phillips said.
Westwood had threatened to take out her concealed weapons after telling the sisters that she was white and hot, and that they didn’t belong there.
The 911 call Westwood made was released by police:
“There are folks that are trying to break in. They’re trying to get in the apartments. They are actually people that I’ve never seen here before but they are African American.”
When the dispatcher said that police were already responding to a broken down car in that area, Westwood replied: “If you want to know my personal opinion, there’s no car broken down. There’s somebody trying to cause problems. Nobody breaks their car down in the best part of society.”
“They just don’t belong here. Get them out of here,” Westwood demanded. “I’ll tell you what, I’ll pay $2,500 to get them out of here.”
In a recording of a call made by Garris, she told another dispatcher that she was still waiting for police while Westwood was harassing her.
Westwood was heard screaming, “You’re not going to sell drugs here.”
Garris had to call 911 twice to get a response about Westwood, and when they showed up Westwood had already gone. She was MIA for four days, before turning herself in.
“We are so distraught and still very upset about what has taken place only because of the color of our skin. It was so upsetting to know that today we still have this overt racism that’s going on in 2018,” said one of the sisters.
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