Golf Course Called Police on Black Lawyer Who Knows Her Way Around Civil Rights Law by admin Posted: April 25, 2018 One of the African-American women on a golf course, whose co-owner said they were playing too slowly and called the police, is a Pennsylvania lawyer and president of the local NAACP chapter.
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The Grandview Five gave their testimony, clear-eyed. Ojo remarked she couldn’t play golf in the York area because of Chronister’s “influence in the golf community” and Crosby said she “isn’t comfortable going out on a golf course like I was prior to” the incident.
However, that meeting was canceled after Grandview petitioned for a motion to stay. From there, the case went into stasis for 20 months. Over that period the gravity and weight of the case grew on the Sisters, putting a strain on their professional and personal lives.
District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on April 20.
Myneca Ojo, Sandra Thompson, Karen Crosby, Sandra Harrison and Carolyn Dow are members of the “Sisters in the Fairway,” a band of 20 or so minority female golfers in York County, Pa. The five have been together since 2011 (Harrison and Dow are sisters), meeting a few times a month at different courses.
Luckily for the Sisters, one person was willing to go on the record: Jerry Higgins. Higgins is a self-confessed avid golfer—he admitted he snuck in 18 holes before the hearing—and had been playing for 50 years at the time of the incident.
In a separate incident, the man who called the police on a group of black women playing golf at Grandview Golf Club in Pennsylvania in April told the dispatcher that the women were not carrying any weapons "other than her mouth." Getty Images
"I was approached by Steve Chronister, and he said, 'I'm one of the owners and you need to keep up the pace of play," Crosby previously told the York Daily Record. "To me, that was a gross misrepresentation of who he was."
At one point, Chronister is told by another man in the frame to “let the police handle it.”. Advertisement. Chronister then turns toward the camera and tells the women to leave the course in the next five minutes and that the police have been called.
When the women reached the ninth hole, three of them — Harrison, Crosby and Carolyn Dow — left because they were so shaken up by the confrontation. Thompson said that she and Ojo were then approached by Steve Chronister and his son, Jordan Chronister, who is JJ’s husband. Advertisement.
White golf course owners in Pennsylvania said five African American women were playing too slowly. Then they called the police. - The Washington Post. The co-owner of the course in York, Pa., said, “We called police to ensure an amicable result.". Skip to main content.
Saturday but was delayed for almost an hour because of frost on the course.
On Saturday morning, the women — who, according to local media, were experienced golfers and part of a group called Sisters in the Fairway — teed off at Grandview Golf Course in York County . The women told the York Daily Recordthat they were told by the club’s owners they were not keeping a quick-enough pace.
JJ Chronister said her father-in-law, Steve, is not an owner of the club but instead serves in an advisory capacity. Also at the second hole, another woman in the group, Sandra Harrison, talked with a golf course pro who said the women were keeping a fine pace. Advertisement.