Detroit man sues women who allegedly called police on him for 'gardening while black'

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Detroit man sues women who allegedly called police on him for 'gardening while black'
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A black Detroit man is suing three white women alleging they repeatedly filed false police reports and accused him of various crimes that they knew he did not commit to keep him away from a public park in his old neighborhood.

The women "should be sitting at the defendant's table for stalking and harassment charges," not Peeples, a judge said at a 2018 trial.Breaking News Emails

Peeples, who describes himself as an entrepreneur and urban gardener, told NBC News that he spent almost two years cultivating the overgrown park in a Detroit neighborhood into a big garden of flowers and vegetables. In March 2018, the women met with administrators at the Detroit Police Department and made a series of accusations against Peeples, including that he had stolen from homes near the park and that on several occasions, he had threatened to burn down their homes and kill them, according to the lawsuit and a trial transcript.

The women's claims that Peeples threatened them resulted in his being charged with three counts of stalking. Each count carried a sentence of up to a year in jail.

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