Back in the days,on at least 3 occasions in the Newark area....dudes from suburbs would drive around looking for young Black and Puerto Rican kids to do moving jobs. It was a pickup truck and the story was they'd pick up 8-10 teens. Drop them off somewhere and have the kids walk about 5 blocks to where the job was to be done.
Didn't realize until later that the kids were being picked to do little jobs for peanuts, but mainly there to be seen by neighbors in the areas where the work was to be done.
They were camouflage. Major home robberies(planned, well executed) of homes were going down by people's own neighbors...and the kids were brought into the neighborhood so that people would report seeing Black/Brown kids in the vicinity on the day.
That was the rumor anyway. Pay some kids 150 total...steal thousands of dollars of your neighbor's stuff.
I know of people using black people to get black people in black neighborhoods because white people would stand out hurting people in a black neighborhoods. Everyone should be able to earn some money. Plus they work for peanuts.
