People Who Say Police Were Called For #LivingWhileBlack Ask Congress To Act

It happens while shopping for prom, waiting for a friend at a Starbucks, leaving an Airbnb or visiting a college — minorities, most often black people, are deemed suspicious by a white person who calls the police.

On April 12, it happened at Starbucks and it sparked a public outcry that led to the company shutting down its coffeehouses for anti-racism training. Here's the police call from that day:

But the now infamous Starbucks incident is far from isolated and experts say it echoes a tragic past that excluded black people from public spaces.

Since that incident there have been over a dozen more, detailed below, of people calling 911 on people of color who were seemingly just living their everyday lives. Of course, not every call to 911 involving different races is about race, but this list of incidents points to an unsettling pattern. Those affected by it call it "living while black," and it spurred a hashtag that went viral.

Now, some of the people who had 911 called on them for doing innocuous things like moving or napping are calling on Congress to hold a