To that list we now can add … riding a roller-coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom while black.
Yes, the latest outrage allegedly took place at the amusement park in Allentown just after 10 a.m. on Father’s Day, shortly after Benjamin Slater of East Mount Airy, a 36-year-old special-education teacher, entered with three friends — his girlfriend, a young man he mentors, and that man’s girlfriend.
Slater has been to Dorney Park before, and he likes to start at the back and work his way forward. So he headed straight for the Steel Force roller-coaster.
After getting off the ride, Slater said, an armed Dorney Park security officer approached him saying, “Your pockets are bulging. I want to know what you have in them.”
At first, he thought he was getting punked, that it was a Father’s Day joke. Slater — who has an education degree from Bucknell and a master’s from Arcadia — already had been through the park’s security screening. Still, he showed the officer that he had a wallet, keys, and a cellphone. Read more here:
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